Re: [H] Linux file server Novice Linux user

[Jamie Furtner]

Yes, reading and writing NTFS is supported on more recent kernels. If 
you're just reading data from existing drives it'll likely work ok, if 
you want to read/write then it may be a bit rocky (as it's not as well 
used as native filesystems, so there's more possibility of bugs). I 
think you'll have a much easier time if you can switch to native Linux 
disk formats, and remember that you can always use a Linux live image to 
boot a machine to get data off of the disks. Also remember that Linux's 
whole-disk encryption (called "LUKS") is not compatible with Windows 
Bitlocker (and vice-versa).


I'd suggest OpenMediaVault to give you easier administration. 
OpenMediaVault is Debian based, and the newest version "Sandworm" should 
natively support NTFS disks. While you have time - maybe try it in a VM 
and see how it installs, behaves, and ensure it'll give you what you need.



My guess when it comes to the "perfectly good Windows 10 computers" - 
most people won't care until there's a big enough security problem that 
it actually costs them in some way, or until browsers stop supporting 
it, and there's something in an updated browser that doesn't work on 
Windows 10 anymore. Browsers won't stop supporting Windows 10 for at 
least 3 years, and then after we'll see what happens.


Jamie


On 2024-04-11 1:48 p.m., _ Winterlight wrote:

I want to use one of my old mini computers NUC quad core for a file 
server,  security cameras and HD homerun which front ends my TV antenna. Given 
that windows 10 is 18 months away from ending I am thinking of turning to Linux 
for the OS. Actually, I think October 2025 will be the best opportunity Linux 
has ever had to capture a segment of the PC market both business and personal. 
End users and business aren't going to want to throw away perfectly good 
windows 10 computers. They may be willing to pay the $61 for one year of 
updates but after that it gets expensive and you end up at the same starting 
point. It is going to be a major issue come the end of Win 10

Linux Questions

Can I use a NTFS format for any drives ... this would be easier to deal with if 
something went wrong and I had to access the drive from a windows PC?

I have on occasion installed various versions of Linux in virtual machines and 
old PCs but I am a novice and I will struggle with it to learn how to manage it.
What current distribution of Linux would you recommend for this ?
Thanks  

Re: [H] Web site security issue

[Jamie Furtner]

You don't say if you're accessing the site via HTTP or HTTPS - I'd guess 
HTTPS. You need to have a valid certificate for HTTPS to work 
automatically for all clients (and some can't even be made to accept an 
invalid certificate manually). There's no way for a site to tell the 
client "no this certificate is valid" - or bad sites would just do that 
and malware would be even worse.


You'll have to get a valid certificate for the site and configure the 
netsol host to use it. This is a great application for a free Let's 
Encrypt cert instead of a paid certificate (which I'm almost certain 
Network Solutions would be happy to sell you otherwise). You may be 
better off looking for a different host that does LE out of the box and 
just leaving DNS with netsol if they don't offer LE today.


On 2021-01-26 12:29 p.m., _ Winterlight wrote:

I have a website hosted with network solutions. It is the cheapest one they 
sell. I don't want it to come up on search and I have robots.txt  in the root 
to prevent this.
I don't even have an entry page as I use it primarily to post accessible data 
for my own use. Occasionally, I will post something like a lease for a new 
tenant to review or a video for a friend to stream.
I think some of my friends are having trouble with my posted links due to a lack of 
some kind of security issues on my site. I don't have a problem with it as I just 
tell the browser to ignore it and let me through but my friends, particular using 
phones have a problem in that the link won't even appear. What is my site missing and 
how do I overcome this? thanks 

Re: [H] Asus P9X79 WS and Gen3 PCIe

[Jamie Furtner]

Yes. Even if it wasn't PCIe is forwards/backwards compatible, the 
motherboard and device would negotiate the fastest speed possible 
between them.


Jamie

On 2020-10-25 5:16 p.m., _ Winterlight wrote:

I am looking at a

Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN550 NVMe Internal SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 
2280, 3D NAND, Up to 2,400 MB/s - WDS100T2B0C
but I am unclear if my motherboard will support it = Ausus P9X79 with these 
specs

4 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (dual@x16/x16; Quad@x8/x8/x8/x8; Triple@x16/x8/x8)
2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slot (White@x4 speed)
* This motherboard is ready to support PCIe 3.0 SPEC. Functions will be 
available when using PCIe 3.0-compliant devices

Is Gen3 and PCe 3.0 the same thing?

Re: [H] I Need a Sysadmin Network guru

[Jamie Furtner]

The DNS domain should be the same no matter where it's hosted, so long 
as the configuration is the same as it used to be, it should work still. 
The only caveat would be that each subdomain would need to be added if 
they're not already and pointing at the web host address. It sounds like 
you're last provider did magick here which made it easy but hid how it 
actually works.


Your new hosting provider needs to know about the subdomains - I don't 
think the "folder -> subdomain" mapping is typical, you'll likely need 
to create separate hosts for each subdomain or figure some similar way 
to do this on the hosting provider's side (aliases, multiple names, or 
something like that).



On 2020-07-31 3:50 p.m., _ Winterlight wrote:

I have a domain sitting at Google. I have a hosting account for that domain at 
Network Solutions. In my Google account I am using  the Google Domain name 
servers but I created Custom resource records pointing to Network Solutions =  
IP ...MX..mail...mail servers. The website is working good and the email is 
working good.  However, I am having trouble getting the Subdomains to work. The 
domain and hosting were previously at the same Provider so a subdomain only had 
to be a folder with a index file and it was automatically resolved.

In this setup I inputted the path to the subdomain into my Hosting package 
management console... Domain Names Pointing to this package...and it was 
accepted so it seems to me that it should be able to resolve the address.   So 
is it going to be any different when the domain and hosting are in two 
different providers. I don't see how but I am just checking

Re: [H] Win 10 won't shut down

[Jamie Furtner]

There shouldn't be a problem with changing your live.com account password.

Have you tried a forced shutdown by the command line? Open a command 
prompt, type in


   shutdown /s /t 1

and see what happens? If it works, try a normal shut down again and see 
if that works.


On 2019-02-18 2:24 p.m., Steve Tomporowski wrote:

Well, over the weekend, I found out that the password for my hotmail
account had been pwned, so I changed it on Live.com.  Since that time, Win
10 won't shut down.  Was it a problem that I changed my password to my
linked account that way?  When I click the shutdown button, nothing happens
until I do Cntrl-Alt-Del, then there's a quick flash of an error message
and the spinning dots show up and that's where it sits.  I haven't let it
run that way more than 10 minutes, though.
Any ideas?
ThanksSteve

Re: [H] New Win10 computer says some settings are restricted to administrators

[Jamie Furtner]

Back up and then try manually clearing the policies settings (and check 
HKLM\Software\wow6432node\Policies for 32-bit policies, and also check 
HKCU\Software\Policies and backup and clear them both). Restart and 
check Settings then.



On 2018-07-31 5:35 PM, Brian Weeden wrote:

There are subfolders for Lenovo and Microsoft, with a whole bunch of
folders/keys under Microsoft.

Interestingly, when I go into gpedit.msc and look under Administrative
Templates for either Computer or User config, nothing is configured.



-
Brian


On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Jamie Furtner  wrote:


The controlled by administrator message usually means that group policies
are set in my experience, but I’ve not heard of a machine being sold with
policies set.

Can you check the machines registry under HKLM/software/policies? If there
are any folders or keys under it, try using gpedit to clear out all
policies. I’m not sure if manually clearing the folder will work
permanently.


On Jul 31, 2018, at 4:11 PM, Brian Weeden 

wrote:

Yes, I'm using Win10 Pro. I use that on my laptops for bitlocker.

The Administrator account is disabled for security precautions. I can
re-enable it, but it's not enabled on my other Win10 Pro machines that I
use at home, and I have full access to everything.on those.






-
Brian


On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Winterlight <

winterli...@winterlight.org>

wrote:


Are you using Win 10 PRO? This will make it easier to access some
settings. By default you are  user with administrator  privileges...

not

THE Administrator. I will assume you are running pro. So open computer
manager >> users  enable and give a password to THE Administrator

which

is like a Super Administrator. Log in as the administrator or open

things

as The administrator and you can make the changes you wish.


At 02:30 PM 7/31/2018, you wrote:


Just ordered a new Lenovo laptop with Win10Pro on it and it's a great
machine, with one problem. I'm not able to access a lot of the admin

type

stuff (add/remove programs, bitlocker, windows updates, etc). They're
either not there, or have a message that says "some settings are

managed

by
your system administrator".

Well, I am the system administrator, and I can't figure out how to undo
this. I did some googling and it seems that this is due to a group

policy

setting being enabled. Articles like this say you can fix it by

toggling

the windows diagnostics on or off, but it apparently doesn't work for

the

latest version of windows:
https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/solved-how-to-fix-some-
settings-are-managed-by-your-organization-error-on-windows-10/

Any ideas, particularly from those of you who've managed enterprise
machines before?


-
Brian

Re: [H] New Win10 computer says some settings are restricted to administrators

[Jamie Furtner]

The controlled by administrator message usually means that group policies are 
set in my experience, but I’ve not heard of a machine being sold with policies 
set.

Can you check the machines registry under HKLM/software/policies? If there are 
any folders or keys under it, try using gpedit to clear out all policies. I’m 
not sure if manually clearing the folder will work permanently.

> On Jul 31, 2018, at 4:11 PM, Brian Weeden  wrote:
> 
> Yes, I'm using Win10 Pro. I use that on my laptops for bitlocker.
> 
> The Administrator account is disabled for security precautions. I can
> re-enable it, but it's not enabled on my other Win10 Pro machines that I
> use at home, and I have full access to everything.on those.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -
> Brian
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Winterlight 
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Are you using Win 10 PRO? This will make it easier to access some
>> settings. By default you are  user with administrator  privileges... not
>> THE Administrator. I will assume you are running pro. So open computer
>> manager >> users  enable and give a password to THE Administrator which
>> is like a Super Administrator. Log in as the administrator or open things
>> as The administrator and you can make the changes you wish.
>> 
>> 
>> At 02:30 PM 7/31/2018, you wrote:
>> 
>>> Just ordered a new Lenovo laptop with Win10Pro on it and it's a great
>>> machine, with one problem. I'm not able to access a lot of the admin type
>>> stuff (add/remove programs, bitlocker, windows updates, etc). They're
>>> either not there, or have a message that says "some settings are managed
>>> by
>>> your system administrator".
>>> 
>>> Well, I am the system administrator, and I can't figure out how to undo
>>> this. I did some googling and it seems that this is due to a group policy
>>> setting being enabled. Articles like this say you can fix it by toggling
>>> the windows diagnostics on or off, but it apparently doesn't work for the
>>> latest version of windows:
>>> https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/solved-how-to-fix-some-
>>> settings-are-managed-by-your-organization-error-on-windows-10/
>>> 
>>> Any ideas, particularly from those of you who've managed enterprise
>>> machines before?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -
>>> Brian
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

Re: [H] Linux old ATI video card support

[Jamie Furtner]

Either look like they'd be ok (both have or are lightweight desktop 
experiences), to me it would depend on where you think you'll be more 
comfortable with getting help with questions. OpenELEC is another 
distribution (I'd heard of it before, but that doesn't matter too much 
as there's so many) but it's also light weight and probably would also 
work well on an older machine. You'd use it instead of another 
distribution, or try it from a USB key - I'd say if it provides the 
device support already integrated and you don't want to tinker to get it 
to work on another distro then it's easiest to use it. OpenELEC is 
focused on being a media centre device so may not have all the features 
or apps of a full distribution built in, but should excel as a media device.



On 2018-07-29 12:00 PM, Winterlight wrote:


Cool..thanks! I was thinking of  Elementary OS... or maybe Mint64 
...what do you think?  I have a SiliconDust tuner that I would like to 
use. It does support Kodi with open Elec for Linux but I don't know 
what that is... a distribution or an app.


At 11:24 AM 7/29/2018, you wrote:
Short answer is yes it looks like the XOrg radeon driver 
(https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Radeon/) has full support for the 
X1400 graphics card, out of the box on most distributions. I'd be 
tempted to run something like Xubuntu or Lubuntu on it as both use a 
lighter-weight desktop (Xfce or LXQt) than KDE or Gnome that are in 
the standard distributions. They're both still Debian/Ubuntu based so 
if you're not familiar with Linux you can get help on it relatively 
easily by searching as most Ubuntu-based solutions will work.




On 2018-07-29 10:13 AM, Winterlight wrote:
I own a old T60 Thinkpad circa 2007 that still works well. I bought 
it on Ebay used for not much money a long time ago. The only upgrade 
I did was to install an old small SSD in it.  The T60 has a chipset 
that only handles 3GB of RAM because it's native OS is XP. In it's 
day it was considered high end. A large wide screen, 2.2 dual core 
with ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1400.

>
 The ATI video is now a problem. The ATI video card creates a 
problem when it comes to OS upgrades because there is absolutely no 
drivers for it in Win7 and above. All you can get is generic MS 
video card driver which kills a lot of the usefulness of the laptop. 
If it wasn't for the video card I could update the OS and find a use 
for it. I am thinking about wiping the drive and installing some 
flavor of Linux...would Linux have better support for the ATI card ?

Re: [H] Linux old ATI video card support

[Jamie Furtner]

Short answer is yes it looks like the XOrg radeon driver 
(https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Radeon/) has full support for the 
X1400 graphics card, out of the box on most distributions. I'd be 
tempted to run something like Xubuntu or Lubuntu on it as both use a 
lighter-weight desktop (Xfce or LXQt) than KDE or Gnome that are in the 
standard distributions. They're both still Debian/Ubuntu based so if 
you're not familiar with Linux you can get help on it relatively easily 
by searching as most Ubuntu-based solutions will work.




On 2018-07-29 10:13 AM, Winterlight wrote:
I own a old T60 Thinkpad circa 2007 that still works well. I bought it 
on Ebay used for not much money a long time ago. The only upgrade I 
did was to install an old small SSD in it.  The T60 has a chipset that 
only handles 3GB of RAM because it's native OS is XP. In it's day it 
was considered high end. A large wide screen, 2.2 dual core with ATI 
Mobility Radeon™ X1400.


 The ATI video is now a problem. The  ATI video card creates a problem 
when it comes to OS upgrades because there is absolutely no drivers 
for it in Win7 and above. All you can get is generic MS video card 
driver which kills a lot of the usefulness of the laptop. If it wasn't 
for the video card I could update the OS and find a use for it.  I am 
thinking about wiping the drive and installing some flavor of 
Linux...would Linux have better support for the ATI card ?

Re: [H] router as switch and wifi only

[Jamie Furtner]

There's nothing wrong with using the same SSID / password no. Devices 
should switch between routers when they use the same SSID, though they 
may not be very intelligent about leaving the weaker signal and joining 
the stronger signal. If the AP has the ability to set a "minimal power 
allowed" that can help but most consumer devices don't provide something 
like that.



On 2018-07-12 6:53 PM, Winterlight wrote:
So there is nothing wrong with using the same SSID and password as the 
primary wifi you are trying to extend?



At 06:24 PM 7/12/2018, you wrote:

I use different SSID's on each access point usually. Just my habit

lopaka

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 2:02 PM, Winterlight 


wrote:

>
> should a Access Point use the primary wifi SSID name but with a 
different

> IP...or should it use a different SSID name?
>
>
>
>
> At 02:36 PM 7/12/2018, you wrote:
>
>> At 01:08 PM 7/12/2018, you wrote:
>>
>>> Your method would work.  I suggest checking to see if the router 
supports

>>> DD-WRT and installing a version of that.
>>>
>>
>> I checked at https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/ and my TEW-639GR isn't 
listed...

>> so that is that.
>>
>> Thanks Chris.
>> m
>>
>>
>>
>>  It will generally allow you to
>>> put in AP only mode even if the original version didn't have that 
option.

>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Winterlight <
>>> winterli...@winterlight.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > In order to use an old router as only a switch and wifi  which is
>>> pluged
>>> > into another internet router . all I need to do is disable 
DHCP

>>> Server
>>> > in the old router... or is there something else? Thanks
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>

Re: [H] Win10 Update Problems

[Jamie Furtner]

Do you use the ASUS RAMDisk software they tout on their page (or even 
have it installed)? I have had problems updating Windows getting the 
same error code back with Imdisk (a freeware ramdisk) as my B: drive, 
though it doesn't interfere when it's a Z: drive. If so I'd suggest 
uninstalling it and try again. If not, try removing any ASUS drivers / 
software and see if that helps.


I discovered it by doing a clean install and found I broke updates again 
after installing the software and tools I usually use. You could  do the 
same - do a clean install onto a separate disk and verify Windows 
updates successfully, then start installing the software and drivers 
from your current system. From a USB key it's not too bad to do the 
Windows install now, the software and drivers is definitely the painful 
part.


I'd be surprised if there's actually a hardware incompatibility - it's 
possible but unlikely on hardware this recent.


On 2017-12-23 9:43 AM, Steve Tomporowski wrote:

Thane,

Thanks, but been that route already.  Tried from ISO both with normal 
system startup and from a 'clean boot'.


Thanks...Steve

On 12/23/2017 11:32 AM, Thane K. Sherrington wrote:
I'd try downloading the Media Creation Tool. 
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10


And do an inplace upgrade.

Tn 23/12/2017 12:13 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote:

Bottom line:  Win10 keeps trying to update to the Creators Update 
(not the Fall Creators Update, I'm way behind!) and fails each time. 
The error given is 0x8007001f. Tried just about everything the past 
two weeks. Yesterday spent four hours on the phone with Microsoft 
with no progress.  The thought occurs that there might be a hardware 
incompatibility. The MB is an ASUS Maximus VII Hero.  BIOS is 
updated, although the latest one is back in March. Drivers updated 
but the drivers are all 2016 for latest.  Went through the drill 
with clean boot and direct update from an ISO, same failure, same 
error.  With the DAW and audio setup I have a few hundred thousand 
files to install, so I'd like to avoid a clean install if I can.  On 
the compatibility issue, I can't get a straight answer from ASUS, 
nor is there consistent info on the website.  So does anyone have 
any experience or heard of anything with the Creators Update and the 
ASUS Maximus VII Hero?  Still looking here


Thanks...Steve










--
Jamie Furtner ja...@furtner.ca

Re: [H] Dual Networks

[Jamie Furtner]

Try changing the interface metric like I said below. By default Windows 
will prefer a wired connection over a wireless one. I don't know if that 
will work or not though but it's worth a shot. It's worth a shot though 
I don't know if it will work.


On 2017-11-22 6:56 AM, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
Well, I knew this was going to be a learning experience.  I took 
Thane's advice and changed my DHCP network to 192.168.2.1.  Did the 
stupid and forgot to change the subnet mask.  Reset the router, 
changed both address and subnet mask, then found out that I had to run 
the Windows troubleshooter to reset the network connection for it to 
work.  Reinstalled wireless, then pulled the internet on my router.  
No go.  While I still had access to my network, there was no internet 
and Windows was complaining that there were two active networks and to 
unplug everything.  So, any advice here?  I'd like to retain the 
router to make things simpler.  I'm still trying to find the right 
search words to get what I need on the net.


On 11/21/2017 11:41 PM, Jamie Furtner wrote:
The behaviour you're seeing is likely because there's a router 
handling DHCP on the wired network, and that DHCP packet also has a 
default gateway. When you plug in the cable, the computer receives a 
DHCP response from the router saying that it's a valid connection, 
and most of the time Windows prefers physical cables to wireless.


It may work with the router is still plugged into the LAN network 
(without the Internet connection plugged in) if you go into adapter 
settings on the computer and set the metric of the wireless NIC to 1, 
and the wired NIC to 100. (Settings -> Network & Internet -> Network 
and Sharing Centre -> Change adapter settings, right click on network 
connection -> Properties -> IPV4 settings -> Advanced -> metric text 
box). The problem with leaving the router in play is it will do DNS 
also, and that may confuse the computer or servers if they don't get 
responses or gets bad responses back from the router.


To get rid of the router (or if the above doesn't work) you'll need 
to follow through a few things here to make this work. This sounds 
like one of the rare cases to use static IP addresses on the wired 
network - make sure like Thane said that the two networks have 
separate IP ranges, and there's no default gateway set for the wired 
LAN devices. I would statically set the IP addresses on the devices 
on the wired network and add if you use names for them then add them 
to your hosts file.


You should end up with something like following structure:

 * Wireless - 192.168.1.0/24
 o handled by DHCP - actual IP range doesn't matter so long as it's
   different then the wired
 * LAN - 10.0.0.0/24
 o 10.0.0.X (where X is unique for each device)
 o netmask 255.255.255.0
 o no gateway
 o no DNS

In the %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file on your machine add a 
line like this for each server (the printer software will likely 
figure it out once the printer is assigned a static IP address, 
though it may take a reinstall). You may have to turn off the Windows 
Firewall for the connection or set it to Private if Windows prompts 
to ensure you have full connectivity to devices on the LAN.


    10.0.0.X server1name
    10.0.0.Y server2name

I do something like this when I want VMs in a separated network (with 
no Internet access) for testing. The biggest difference is that I do 
use DHCP on the split network, but there's no gateway defined so it 
works without having to configure each host. That means having a DHCP 
server and the knowledge to configure it though.


Jamie

On 2017-11-21 6:12 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
We're dealing with Win10 here.  We are trying to get rid of an extra 
cable internet connection at my house.  The downstairs currently has 
it's own internet with a wired network that includes two servers and 
a printer.  What I need to do is keep the wired network without 
internet and access the internet wirelessly and still be able to 
access the servers and the printer.  Can I get some guidelines on 
how to get this done?  I've got a good wireless adapter on my 
desktop now and it works, but when I plug in the network cable, 
internet access goes back to the wired network. Still searching the 
web for something coherent about this, but with this group, someone 
has done it at sometime, right?


Thanks...Steve




--
Jamie Furtner

Re: [H] Dual Networks

[Jamie Furtner]

The behaviour you're seeing is likely because there's a router handling 
DHCP on the wired network, and that DHCP packet also has a default 
gateway. When you plug in the cable, the computer receives a DHCP 
response from the router saying that it's a valid connection, and most 
of the time Windows prefers physical cables to wireless.


It may work with the router is still plugged into the LAN network 
(without the Internet connection plugged in) if you go into adapter 
settings on the computer and set the metric of the wireless NIC to 1, 
and the wired NIC to 100. (Settings -> Network & Internet -> Network and 
Sharing Centre -> Change adapter settings, right click on network 
connection -> Properties -> IPV4 settings -> Advanced -> metric text 
box). The problem with leaving the router in play is it will do DNS 
also, and that may confuse the computer or servers if they don't get 
responses or gets bad responses back from the router.


To get rid of the router (or if the above doesn't work) you'll need to 
follow through a few things here to make this work. This sounds like one 
of the rare cases to use static IP addresses on the wired network - make 
sure like Thane said that the two networks have separate IP ranges, and 
there's no default gateway set for the wired LAN devices. I would 
statically set the IP addresses on the devices on the wired network and 
add if you use names for them then add them to your hosts file.


You should end up with something like following structure:

 * Wireless - 192.168.1.0/24
 o handled by DHCP - actual IP range doesn't matter so long as it's
   different then the wired
 * LAN - 10.0.0.0/24
 o 10.0.0.X (where X is unique for each device)
 o netmask 255.255.255.0
 o no gateway
 o no DNS

In the %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file on your machine add a 
line like this for each server (the printer software will likely figure 
it out once the printer is assigned a static IP address, though it may 
take a reinstall). You may have to turn off the Windows Firewall for the 
connection or set it to Private if Windows prompts to ensure you have 
full connectivity to devices on the LAN.


    10.0.0.X server1name
    10.0.0.Y server2name

I do something like this when I want VMs in a separated network (with no 
Internet access) for testing. The biggest difference is that I do use 
DHCP on the split network, but there's no gateway defined so it works 
without having to configure each host. That means having a DHCP server 
and the knowledge to configure it though.


Jamie

On 2017-11-21 6:12 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
We're dealing with Win10 here.  We are trying to get rid of an extra 
cable internet connection at my house.  The downstairs currently has 
it's own internet with a wired network that includes two servers and a 
printer.  What I need to do is keep the wired network without internet 
and access the internet wirelessly and still be able to access the 
servers and the printer.  Can I get some guidelines on how to get this 
done?  I've got a good wireless adapter on my desktop now and it 
works, but when I plug in the network cable, internet access goes back 
to the wired network. Still searching the web for something coherent 
about this, but with this group, someone has done it at sometime, right?


Thanks...Steve


--
Jamie Furtner

Re: [H] Windows 10 Boot problem

[Jamie Furtner]

Is it an EFI-based system? Do you need to mount the EFI partition to a 
drive letter? 
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/windows-10-bootrec-fixboot-access-is-denied/747c4180-7ff3-4bc2-b6cc-81e572d546df?auth=1 
has something about the EFI partition if so.


On 2017-11-03 10:04 AM, Thane K. Sherrington wrote:
That was a good idea.  I ran SpinRite (no problems found) but the 
bootrec /fixboot still gives "access denied".  So then I cloned the 
drive to a brand new drive, but it's the same problem.


There must be another MBR fix utility out there.

T

On 01/11/2017 4:39 PM, Brian Weeden wrote:

It could be a bad sector on the boot section of the drive.

Spinrite is a useful tool for diagnosing that, and in some cases 
fixing it
to the point where you can at least boot the drive and/or get the 
data off

it.



-
Brian


On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Thane K. Sherrington <
th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote:


No external drives.  I can boot to a flash drive or DVD (I'm booting to
DVD to get into RE.

T



Are you sure there are no external drives are plugged in? External 
drives
can sometimes re-order the way 10 sees the drives. I have had this 
happen

more then once with windows 10.


On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Thane K. Sherrington <

th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote:


I've got a laptop that started giving the dread "inaccessible boot

device"

message in Windows 10.

I've had this before, and normally I boot to the recovery 
environment

and

then:

Rename the current BCD and rebuild it with

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd

But this time, I get "access denied" when I do the bootrec 
/fixboot -

all

the other commands succeed and it rebuilds the BCD, but still no

boot.  So

I'm convinced it's the fixboot part that isn't working. However, I

can't

find any links in Google that would point in in the right direction.

Any ideas?

T

















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Re: [H] Follow UP>>> is there a way to stop creators update

[Jamie Furtner]

I don't know about known - I may have stumbled across a hint on a forum 
that there was an issue with y and the creator's update, but I can't 
find it now.


I found that after I upgraded to 1703 that Windows Updates wouldn't 
install and the Store stopped working, with both throwing weird errors 
that didn't have anything out there. In the end I think I tried 
downgrading imdisk, but what ultimately fixed it was to change the drive 
letter.


On 2017-08-08 1:18 PM, Winterlight wrote:

Really! That is great! So this is a known issue with windows 10?

At 08:40 AM 8/8/2017, you wrote:
For IMDisk - if you map it to a different drive (I used Z:) then it 
doesn't break updates anymore. It just seems like it's something with 
it being the B: drive which breaks updates and the windows store.


Jamie


On 2017-08-08 8:25 AM, FORC5 wrote:
I blocked it for no other reason saw nothing new I needed and other 
ppl were having problems. If there are updates in the background 
that are important they are not emphasizing them.
I did let it install in my netbook but it needs to come out, 
internet speed dropped to under 1 mbs

fp
At 10:12 PM 8/7/2017, Winterlight Poked the stick with:
I found the conflict = IMDisk. I always run a ram disk. I have been 
using IMDisk since windows 8. IMDISK installs in windows 10 without 
a problem, it runs without a problem, Creators update installs 
without a problem, but after creators update installs the computer 
can't update anything = windows, acrobat pro, office, and the 
computer can not download and, install anything from the windows 
store.


I did a new install of Windows 10 which included Creators Update. 
Then I started installing my programs, one of which was an app from 
the windows store which wouldn't install. This was a brand new 
build so I just started uninstalling programs one at time followed 
by a reboot. When I uninstalled IMDisk the windows store 
immediately downloaded and installed my apps!


I really like a large RAM Drive so I am hoping to find one that 
works with Windows 10 Creators update.


m


Date:  Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

        ***Caution Tagline Below***
                **Tallyho**
***
  C program run... Run, program, run...
                 PLEASE...
***











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Re: [H] Follow UP>>> is there a way to stop creators update

[Jamie Furtner]

For IMDisk - if you map it to a different drive (I used Z:) then it 
doesn't break updates anymore. It just seems like it's something with it 
being the B: drive which breaks updates and the windows store.


Jamie


On 2017-08-08 8:25 AM, FORC5 wrote:
I blocked it for no other reason saw nothing new I needed and other 
ppl were having problems. If there are updates in the background that 
are important they are not emphasizing them.
I did let it install in my netbook but it needs to come out, internet 
speed dropped to under 1 mbs

fp
At 10:12 PM 8/7/2017, Winterlight Poked the stick with:
I found the conflict = IMDisk. I always run a ram disk. I have been 
using IMDisk since windows 8. IMDISK installs in windows 10 without a 
problem, it runs without a problem, Creators update installs without 
a problem, but after creators update installs the computer can't 
update anything = windows, acrobat pro, office, and the computer can 
not download and, install anything from the windows store.


I did a new install of Windows 10 which included Creators Update. 
Then I started installing my programs, one of which was an app from 
the windows store which wouldn't install. This was a brand new 
build so I just started uninstalling programs one at time followed by 
a reboot. When I uninstalled IMDisk the windows store immediately 
downloaded and installed my apps!


I really like a large RAM Drive so I am hoping to find one that works 
with Windows 10 Creators update.


m


Date:  Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

    ***Caution Tagline Below***
    **Tallyho**
***
  C program run... Run, program, run...
 PLEASE...
***












--
Jamie Furtner

Re: [H] (no subject)

[Jamie Furtner]

I'll note that the manual doesn't say anything about disabling the four 
ports (CN3 [unsure, obscured in the picture] and CN4) on the back of the 
card, so I'd expect that means they should always work. If they don't 
then the card itself is likely defective or there's a missing or 
incorrect driver.


The jumpers look like they're to select between the internal ports on 
the top of the card and the external ports. Set them all to 2-3 jumpered 
and the four external ports on the card should be enabled. The four 
ports on the back should always be enabled.


Jamie


On 2017-08-05 3:34 PM, Winterlight wrote:

I bought a SYBA 8 port controller = Marvel chipset NON raid.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BBXMCSW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8=1 



I needed four internal and four external ports. This thing has 12 
ports = 4 external, and 8 internal = 4 on top the card and 4 in the 
back and 16 jumpers to configure the ports. When I plugged it in I 
assumed I would have four internal and four external. However, I had 
no external enabled and only the four internal at the top of the card 
enabled. Apparently the default is just four of the twelve ports enabled!


The jumper settings in the manual is difficult to decipher but I tried 
moving 8 of the jumpers and now I have two external and two internal 
ports working. A big difference from the 8 ports it is suppose to 
have. I am having a hard time understanding the jumper chart and there 
is zero support for the card. Before I send it back to Amazon I 
thought I would ask the collective if someone can figure this out. To 
that end I have posted a pdf with the jumper settings from the manual 
and a high res picture of the card.


www.rode.us/SYBA8port.pdf

I suggest you download the pdf because the high res photo = big 
picture makes it difficult to view in a browser.




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Re: [H] Netgear X10

[Jamie Furtner]

I'm not using one of those routers but the SFP port would be for
trunking to another switch or device that has a SFP port, like a pro
level switch (like a GS110TP) to offer 1Gbit to devices connected to the
switch. If you're not planning on wiring anything then there's not much
benefit to you, but if you want to offer hardwired connectivity
elsewhere then it could be a benefit as each port on the switch could
get 1 Gbit.


On 2017-03-04 11:54 AM, Winterlight wrote:
> I am thinking about buying a top end home/small business router =
> Netgear X10. I moved from an area where wireless was worthless unless
> it was line of sight. But now I am in a area where wireless works
> really well. So instead of hardwiring my home, I am going to try
> wireless for everything from mobile devices to 4K streaming. This home
> router comes with a 10G LAN SFP+ port  but when would/could you use
> that in a home setting?
>
> Anybody using one of these routers?
> w
>

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Re: [H] Happy Next Year ! ? Eudora

[Jamie Furtner]

It is probably because your mail provider has switched to certificates
with a newer hash (SHA256) that Eudora doesn't support. If that's the
case, you're probably out of luck and it's (way, way) past time to
upgrade. Nothing you can do will make Eudora support the certificate as
the old SSL libraries didn't understand anything newer than SHA1 hashes,
and there are not supposed to be any new SHA1 certificates created after
2016.

You could connect using a client that works and then look at the
certificate through it (it'll say something about a Signature Algorithm
- if it says sha256 then Eudora will likely no longer support it).


On 2016-12-27 3:43 PM, FORC5 wrote:
> Thanks
> keep doing that over and over, even got to one window that let me
> install the cert.
> so far no luck.
> may be a permission problem, I'll keep slugging.
> fp
>
> At 02:21 PM 12/27/2016, Michael Resnick Poked the stick with:
>> I had a similar problem with Eudora (yes, I'm still using it too).
>> After doing some googling I found that the following solution worked
>> for me.
>>
>> You need to tell Eudora to add the new certificate to the list of
>> trusted certificates.
>> In the personalities window, right-click on the personality and
>> select "properties" Go to the "incoming mail" tab.
>> Click on the "last SSL info" button at the bottom.
>> Click on the "certificate manager" button.
>> The certificate in question should come up selected.
>> If there is a + button next to it, click on that.
>> Repeat if necessary until you get to the bottom level.
>> Select that certificate then click on the button to add it to the
>> trusted certificates.
>> That should solve the problem.
>>
>> Good luck!
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> At 10:55 AM 12/27/2016, FORC5 wrote:
>>> Hope every one has a good year to come.
>>>
>>> I have a question about Eudora, which I still use. Any way to update
>>> the SSL Certificate ?
>>> If I try and use a secure socket I get errors that I tell it to
>>> trust but does not work.
>>> I know Eudora is OLD. If it worked I would probably be still using
>>> Blue Wave :'(
>>> old dog here
>>>
>>> fp
>>>
>>> Date:  Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
>>>
>>> ***Caution Tagline Below***
>>> **Tallyho**
>>> ***
>>>When the going gets tough, the smart
>>>  get lost.
>>> ***
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -
>>> No virus found in this message.
>>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
>>> Version: 2016.0.7924 / Virus Database: 4739/13661 - Release Date:
>>> 12/27/16
>>
>> __
>> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
>> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." (Benjamin
>> Franklin, 1755)
>
> Date:  Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
>
> ***Caution Tagline Below***
> **Tallyho**
> ***
>Like winter snow on summer lawn, time
> past is time gone.
> ***
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>

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Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem

[Jamie Furtner]

Yes, try switching cables around. I have had a Nvidia 8800-series card 
stop detecting one of my screens intermittently on boot, but my 670 
worked fine. It would work fine if I just hard-restarted the machine, 
and the problem was masked when I swapped cables (same monitor is 
working fine with a 1080).


I think a 1060 would be fine for your intended use. I don't think 
there's a difference between any of the 10-series cards and the monitors 
they can drive. Keep in mind that the Nvidia 10-series cards only 
support 4 devices even if they have more ports, and they only support 
digital output (so a DVI-I to VGA adapter will not work even if it has 
the port). You may need (as I did when I upgraded) new cables or 
adapters as the reference design has 1 HDMI and 1 DVI, and 3 DisplayPorts.


Jamie


On 2016-09-26 3:28 PM, Winterlight wrote:


I don't have a hdmi on the monitor and I don't have VGA on the video 
card so the only way  would be to use an adaptor, and I would still be 
coming off the same video card DVI port  and I would never know for 
sure.  I guess I will try switching the cables on the monitors and see 
if it still happens. If it does I will look to the video card.


To that end ...the 2nd part of my question.

 I am not a big gamer but I do have a steam account and very 
occasionally I will buy a game and play it... usually something that 
is years old... I just played Left4Dead2 for example. However I do 
intend to be driving four large monitors in the near future... so will 
a EVGA GTX 1060 with 6GB of RAM  do the job or do I need to spend the 
money on ta GTX 1070. Yes the 1070 will be better in modern games and 
3D but I don't use it  for that. Will the model number of a modern 
video card make any difference for day to day multi monitor support?



At 01:39 PM 9/26/2016, you wrote:
Try a different interface connector on the monitor.  I've had weird 
symptoms when the interface goes bad.



On 9/26/2016 2:18 PM, Winterlight wrote:
changing to a lower resolution yeah... but a higher refresh rate... 
that the part I find hard to blame on the monitor.



At 11:09 AM 9/26/2016, you wrote:
Could be the monitor. Swap them around and see if that monitor does 
it (changes to lower res) on a different output. I've had a couple 
monitors that did that before going out completely.Â

lopaka
  From: Winterlight <winterli...@winterlight.org>
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 11:03 AM
 Subject: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem

My desktop uses a three year old NVIDIA GTX 660 plugged into three
monitors. In the last 3 months I have been having a problem with the
left hand monitor which is a Dell 2407 that runs at 1920 X 1600
.  The other two monitors are fine. When the monitors wake up I have
no signal to the 2407 and all the wall papers and icons are skewed
over to the right. Sometimes a reboot or a complete shutdown and
resetting the cables will bring back the signal but even when that
happens now it comes back at 1024x768 and even stranger at a refresh
rate of 75hz instead of 60hz and then it is a big struggle to get it
back to the correct resolution and refresh rate because the correct
1920 X 1600 at 60 hz isn't even available to select.

The first thing I did was to remove and then update and install the
driver but it happened again. To find out if it was hardware or
software when the monitor was down I booted into a different OS. My
desktop dual boots Windows 8.1 Pro and Windows 10 Pro. The problem
remained so I knew it couldn't be a software problem. That left the
video card, the cable, or the monitor.

The cable is a top quality DVI cable that I got from Monoprice. It
appears to be in good condition and I have removed and re seated it a
number of times on both video card and monitor  when this has
happened. A couple of times I thought it was a re seating of the
cable that was causing the problem but it couldn't still be the
problem and besides I don't see how the monitor itself, or the cable
could account for a change in resolution, or an increase in refresh
rate. the monitor is using the correct DELL driver and has no monitor
type problems... such as pixalation or breaking up video, that sort
of thing.  Last night I reset Power Balance to never put the monitors
to sleep and I will see if that solves the problem for the time being.

It has to be the video card right?

  I am not a big gamer but I do have a steam account and very
occasionally I will buy a game and play it... usually something that
is years old... I just played Left4Dead2 for example. However I do
intend to be driving four large monitors in the near future... so
will a EVGA GTX 1060 with 6GB of RAMÂ  do the job or do I need to
spend the money on ta GTX 1070. Yes the 1070 will be better in modern
games and 3D but I don't use it  for that. Will the model number of a
modern video card make any difference for day to day multi monitor
support?  Thanks w



Â









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Re: [H] Phone security

[Jamie Furtner]

The connection to your cell provider is encrypted (GSM providers at 
least- it'll stop many attackers, but (as is usually the case) a 
dedicated attacker could probably break it or more likely social 
engineer their way in. It's really not that different than your cable or 
DSL modem connection - do you trust your home internet provider? Treat 
it roughly the same.


Keep in mind that the connection to your bank is almost certainly 
encrypted via SSL so there's multiple layers that need to be broken 
before you're at serious risk (network provider and SSL certificate 
providers). It's not impossible but there's many easier ways to do it 
instead of hacking your network connections.


Personally, I'll use a VPN provider if I want to be limit the visibility 
of my network traffic from home or my cell, but otherwise I don't really 
care. If I'm doing something like torrents that I want to hide from my 
provider then yes it makes sense, but my daily traffic I don't care 
about as it's generally encrypted and I practice safe internetting 
(things like adblockers via uBlock Origin, being cautious about sites 
sent via email, and not clicking on every link that Aunt J sends out).


Mobile devices as a whole are an interesting vector in the sense that 
they're a more limited environment, which usually means the damage an 
attacker can do is limited (they can't usually break from one app into 
another). There's always going to be holes (Android's Stagefright 
exploit is a recent example) but if your devices are kept up to date 
then you'll be doing the best you can against most attackers. As usual, 
a dedicated attacker that is out to get you will likely be able to do 
some damage - I don't know of any way other then turning everything off 
and staying 100% off the grid to avoid that. If you play at all in the 
modern world then you're at least somewhat vulnerable - the big saving 
grace to me is that most people aren't at risk as we're not targets that 
matter.:


Jamie


On 2016-08-01 12:50 PM, Winterlight wrote:
I do have some apps on my phone that I use but I am really not a big 
smart phone user. If I am mobile I would rather pull out my laptop. 
And I am really not sure about phone security. My phones are updated 
to the current OS, and I use an app called folder lock to protect what 
matters but I never use a phone for online financial matters.


I pay for a private hotspot and VPN service for my laptop and use 
virtual encrypted drives for data, but up to now I don't use VPN for 
my phones. Should I? Is a connection to AT or T-Mobile an encrypted 
connection like a VPN would be?  Am I overly paranoid about using my 
phone data connection for banking / credit card matters? Please 
enlighten me. Thanks

w



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Re: [H] IMAP question on folders

[Jamie Furtner]

Every IMAP server I've used has Sent as a subfolder of Inbox so I'd 
suspect the host. I haven't used Outlook with IMAP before though, so I 
wouldn't rule it out.


Jamie


On 2014-07-31 9:44 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote:

I haven't used IMAP before, but I'm trying a setup for a friend.

I'd like the sent mail to stored in the Sent folder on the server, but 
when I try to tell Outlook 2007 to store it there, it doesn't see the 
Sent folder at all (I can see the folder when I login to Webmail).  As 
far as I can tell, Outlook treats the Inbox folder as the root, and 
only shows the Inbox and the subfolders of the Inbox in Outlook.  I 
can setup a Sent folder as a subfolder of the Inbox, but that seems 
really counter-intuitive.


Is this a limitation of IMAP, or does the host have it screwed up?

T

Re: [H] Greg six core turbo mode

[Jamie Furtner]

Turbo modes are only used when a single core is being driven flat-out. 
If you're using all cores (as you probably would if you're encoding 
video) the package is generating too much heat and it won't use a turbo 
mode.


The way they work is that it's more of a thermal limit then anything 
else - a single core can be driven faster and generate more heat and 
keep the entire chip package within its thermal limit. As more cores are 
used, the turbo frequency is reduced until you get to the chip's rated 
max frequency.


Jamie


On 2014-07-16 2:50 AM, Winterlight wrote:
I have yet to over clock my six core Ivy Bridge 4930k. It is rated at 
3.4 GHz with Turbo at 3.9 GHz. However, when encoding with 100% on all 
12 cores I am running at 3.54GHz Turbo as stated in Task Manager... so 
why doesn't it rise to 3.9GHz in Turbo when it is running flat out 
like this.


FYI There is plenty of quality power being fed into the CPU via the 
P9X79 WS motherboard and an abundance of  large radiator push pull 
liquid cooling for the CPU.

Re: [H] Probably stupid dual network question

[Jamie Furtner]

Yes, it will work.

The biggest problems would be that your routing table may show both 
links as your preferred default route, and that will mess with Internet 
traffic. Check the routing table via 'route print -4' and ensure there's 
one preferred default (destination 0.0.0.0 with the lowest metric).If 
there are multiple with the same metric you can set interface metrics 
under the network connections \ device \ IPv4 advanced properties. If 
both networks have an internal DNS server (providing addresses for 
internal resources) then name resolution may be odd also - you may have 
to use IP addresses to access resources and be sure of which ones you're 
opening.


This configuration is a potential security risk - if compromised this 
machine could be used to access a restricted network and in a corporate 
environment would be considered a breech.


Jamie


On 2014-07-15 8:39 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote:

At 11:09 AM 15/07/2014, Thane Sherrington wrote:
If I have a computer that's using one NIC (wired or wireless) 
connected to one network, and another connected to a different 
network, can Windows 7 access both networks?


For instance:
NIC0 - 192.168.0.10
NIC1 - 192.168.1.10

Can I connect to two different servers at the same time - one at 
192.168.0.99 and one at 192.168.1.99?


Well it looks like it works for me.  I have a laptop connected to a 
wired network and a wireless network, and I appear to be able to 
access both routers and ping devices on different networks.  Cool!


Anyone know if there are any caveats on this?

T

Re: [H] Win 8.1pro (working)??

[Jamie Furtner]

Duncan, look at this:
http://superuser.com/questions/661416/how-to-install-upgrade-to-windows-8-1-rtm-without-a-microsoft-account/661592#661592

It doesn't make sense, but what Bobby is saying is correct - you start
by selecting Create an account and on the creation screen is the skip
option (at the bottom, Sign in without a Microsoft account). As a
guess Microsoft wants to push everyone to use a Microsoft account
instead so hiding it makes sense from that perspective, but I think it
should be on the previous screen.

Jamie

On 2014-05-23 6:10 PM, DSinc wrote:
 Bobby,
 Thanks so much for your share. Understand. I do not wish to
 CREATE an account. I just wish to load and use the SW I have.
 Gave up on Win8.1PRO due to the MS Account business.
 Now, I am trying Win7PRO, but my DVD reader has now crashed
 (and it was brand new?). One thing after another.
 One day I may get there.
 Duncan


 On 05/23/2014 16:22, Bobby Heid wrote:
 Trying to go from memory here.  Select create account.  Then on the
 screen
 it takes you to, there is a link there to not use an account (or not
 create
 one or something like that).

 Bobby

 -Original Message-
 From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On
 Behalf
 Of DSinc
 Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 3:07 PM
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: Re: [H] Win 8.1pro (working)??

 OK. 6hrs of googling 'How to deactivate Windows' ended with failure.
 So I put my 64bit W8.1 PRO DVD in the reader and launched it. Yes,
 it did warn me, but it did format my SSD again (finally!). And, the
 installer
 continued to install W8.1 PRO,or, so I thought. I thought I
 might get
 though this task cleanly. NOPE! M$ stalls at me creating a Microsoft
 Account
 and, I can not get past this. I do NOT wish to create this. M$ does not
 let me
 optout, say NO!, bypass, etc. I do not care what benefits M$ may offer.
 I do not
 want to playjust to use their SW. Slimy BS to me. JMHO.
 The PC is now fully down. I may try and install W7
 PRO..still have those
 copies!
 Duncan

 My frustration is now complete.
 On 05/23/2014 08:49, DSinc wrote:
 Thanks Vincent,
 I sorta agree with your comments, although I've only seen one
 version of
 IE11 (which I do not use). Do you mean one version for desktop (my
 use),
 and a second version for tablet use?
 I will google about how to de-activate my current w8.1 install (full
 version).
 Then I can install my w8.1 PRO OS version. I have very little data to
 miss just now.
 I am still peeking/poking around figuring w8.1 out. It is very
 scrambled up!
 Duncan

 On 05/22/2014 20:24, Vincent Winterling wrote:
 According to my understanding of the EULA, if you have deactivated a
 Windows
 system and it's not an OEM version, you are free to install it on
 another
 machine.

 If you run 8.1 from the desktop which is now easy to do (and get
 the 8.1
 update) you'll find a very stable OS that has more options than before
 (e.g., capacity for use with touch devices). And while I acknowledge
 I might
 be the crazy 1% that actually likes Windows 8.1, it runs fine here on
 several machines.

 That said, it also has it's failings. The 2 versions of IE are stupid.

 On balance, I have to say my daughter uses 8.1 from the touch screen
 almost
 completely and she likes it. She rarely uses the desktop.

 Vincent Winterling
 Vineland, NJ

 -Original Message-
 From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On
 Behalf
 Of DSinc
 Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:31 AM
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: Re: [H] Win 8.1pro (working)??

 Collective,
 OK. Let me ask another question. I purchased, opened the package, and,
 installed Windows 8.1 (64bit).
 It seems to run very stable, if still very confusing to me atm. I will
 get over this, thank you.
 Yes, I did also activate this install; so I believe that M$ now
 knows
 that one of my PCs is now using W8.1.
 Fine.  I also know that I can not re-use my DVDs again EXCEPT to
 re-load
 the same OS to the PC it lives on
 now. I believe I am now part of some large 'Activated' database at
 M$. Fine.
 I am licensed to use the M$ code from the DVDs and any follow on
 support
 services. I own the DVDs and the
 package only.

 Does M$ have a 'De-Activation process' should I decide to install this
 W8.1 code on a different PC that I own?

 No, I have no plan to sell my W8.1 (full version 32/64) to anyone
 else.

 Thank you for any comments/suggestions you choose to share.
 Duncan








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Re: [H] Speed dial

[Jamie Furtner]

I think this is what you want for Firefox.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-tab-page-show-hide-and-customize-top-sites

You can pin a new site, remove sites, or rearrange as much as you want.
The source doesn't even have to be a bookmark - drag the site icon from
the address bar into a new tab window and you can add a site that way too.

Jamie

On 2014-04-21 10:25 PM, Winterlight wrote:
 Back when Opera had a real browser they invented speed dial which was
 a tab that had a collection of small windows on a page that you could
 use as a home page if you wanted and could set it up with the links
 you wanted so that all you had to do was click on a window and go the
 link. It was also dynamic.  Opera called it speed dial.

  Both Firefox and Chrome copied this in their own way but  their
 versions seems useless to me. In Firefox and chrome it appears every
 time you start a new tab. It just seems to show your history in
 arbitrary way that they came up with. Is there a way to configure this
 in Firefox and Chrome and if not what is the point of it. I can't even
 find a menu for it, or even what they call it in Firefox or Chrome nor
 is there any explanation in the help files that I can find... of
 course, it would help if I knew what it was called. Can someone clue
 me in? Thanks.

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Re: [H] Question about 'Domain'

[Jamie Furtner]

I'd have to see more context to be sure, but I don't think they are the
same thing. What I believe it's asking for is a default domain name to
use for internal devices. The purpose is to make name resolution easier
by not having to type as much. For example, give the NAS device a name
like 'host1' and it turns it into 'host1.example.com'. This domain name
can usually be set in your DHCP server configuration or it can come from
what your ISP provides. For example, my ISP provides the domain name of
'cg.shawcable.net' as a default to my router. I ignore it and use my own
value, but that's what is default on consumer routers I've plugged in.

The domain that Windows is asking for in the 'Computer Name/Domain
Changes' dialog is an Active Directory domain name, which businesses
usually use. It usually would match the default domain provided by DHCP,
but they have different purposes.

Jamie

On 2014-03-03 10:30 AM, DSinc wrote:
 When I build/change my kit, I always insert 'workgroup' in its' GROUP
 ID field within
 'Networking.'
 Is the id/value 'workgroup' considered/treated by MS as a 'domain in
 its' Network logic?'

 I ask, because now, when setting up a  new nas for my Brother, I am
 only asked to enter a
 'Domain value.'
 Normally, I would enter 'workgroup.' But I suspect my Brother uses a
 Group=mshome value.
 I suspect that this came to him from his last pair of laptops; and, he
 is shopping a new one!
 NO. I do not use/run a Domain Serveron my home LAN (my server died 2
 months back!)
 Sorry for another 'old' question about 'networking.'
 Best,
 Duncan


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Re: [H] SSD drive question (TIM)

[Jamie Furtner]

Can you boot into a recovery command prompt from a Windows 7+
installation CD and check the drive from there? This could be due to
Windows running and therefore chkdsk not being able to lock the drive.

Jamie

On 2014-02-15 3:17 PM, Tim Lider wrote:
 Hello,

 It could be there are dead sectors or there is something wrong with the
 controller IC on the SSD itself.

 I suggest imaging the SSD over to the new SSD.

 Tim Lider


 -Original Message-
 From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
 boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5
 Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 1:31 PM
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: [H] SSD drive question (TIM)

 Have 4 ssd's in my system all check OK except my boot drive when I run
 chkdsk I get a volume bitmap is incorrect error.
 chkdsk /f does not fix it.

 I have a new drive on order to replace it but was wondering about this.
 System boots fine.
 other drives are backup and data. Occasionally get a system freeze,
 could this be the cause ?

 thanks
 fp

 Date:  Saturday, February 15th, 2014

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Re: [H] So, how much space does W7-64 need?

[Jamie Furtner]

Windows 7-x64 will only upgrade from Windows XP x64 Edition or
Vista-x64. There is no direct upgrade path from 32-bit to 64-bit
Windows, the only method is to do a custom install and reinstall all
your drivers and software. I suggest running the upgrade advisor from
the install disk or
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/upgrade-advisor and
seeing what it says. It will tell you what your upgrade path is and if
you have any incompatible software or hardware.

Keep in mind that upgrade installs keep your old Windows folder (as
C:\Windows.OLD) so they use more space during the upgrade. As I recall
Windows 7 itself uses around 32 GB of disk space for a clean install
once patched.

Jamie

On 2014-02-15 3:19 PM, Tim Lider wrote:
 Duncan,

 I run Windows 7 and Windows 8 on 300GB HD's and put the data on larger HD's
 in the system.  Right now I'm experimenting  a Windows 7 install on a 250GB
 SSD.  So fat the system has not even taken up 1/4th the space of the HD.

 Regards,

 Tim Lider


 -Original Message-
 From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
 boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc
 Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 12:41 PM
 To: HWG
 Subject: [H] So, how much space does W7-64 need?

 Questionsfrom my Brother:

 Q1: Can I just load W7-64 'over' XP? (like an 'upgrade')
 Q2: How much physical space does W7-64 take on a HDpost install?

 He is concerned because he has many programs loaded/running on the c:
 (?root?)
 partition, AND, he does not wish to catalog and move them elsewhere.

 Me, I plan to format my root (c:) partition prior to install of W7-64.
 I will deal with repercussions after the fact if/when possible.
 Thanks,
 Duncan

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Re: [H] Router/switch issue

[Jamie Furtner]

You need to isolate all the various components and see which one could 
be the cause. I haven't seen a switch just being plugged in cause this 
kind of issue directly, but it could be indicative of a router that 
can't handle the load - I have seen consumer routers lock up when 
multiple PCs send or receive a lot of traffic (like downloading large 
files or especially BitTorrent traffic).


I don't know what you've done, but here's how I'd start: Can you ping 
other devices on your internal network? Try with both devices attached 
to the switch, both plugged in directly to the router, and one plugged 
into the switch and one plugged into the router. Are you sure it's the 
switch that's the cause and not the router or modem? If you unplug 
everything from the router and plug in just a PC, can you ping the 
router internal IP, and out to the internet? Can you plug in a PC 
directly into the modem and see if that works (if it's an integrated 
router / modem then it's not possible obviously)?


Jamie

On 2014-01-30 3:15 PM, Bobby Heid wrote:

Well, I did reset the modem the other night and I get the same behavior.
Any other ideas?

-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 4:59 PM
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Router/switch issue

Thanks Duncan.  I will try that if I have not heard of anything that is less
work.  :-)

Bobby

-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 2:13 PM
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Router/switch issue

Have you done a 'factory reset' of the router?
I agree this is a PITA, but It can fix stuff.
Not sure how a switchcan cause trouble unless it is
now broken. I'll watchNlearn :)
Duncan

On 01/27/2014 20:02, Bobby Heid wrote:

Forgot to tell you that this happens even if the pc is directly connected

to

the router.

-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 7:50 PM
To: 'The Hardware List'
Subject: [H] Router/switch issue

Hey,

   


I have a Linksys E4200 router and a Trendnet 8-port gigabit switch.

   


A month or two ago, I could not get to the internet.  Through trial and
error, I determined that when the switch was connected to the router, I
could not access the internet.  SO I ordered me a new switch.  AL has been
fine until today.  My wife told that in the middle of the day today, all

of

a sudden she could not access the internet or the networked printer.

After

switching out cables and all, I finally figured out that the new switch is
doing the same thing as the other switch did.  The old switch is about a
year old.  The router is a couple of years old.

   


I am beginning to wonder if it might be the router that is causing the
issue.  What do you all think?  Any ideas on how to test everything to

find

out what is causing the problem?

   


Thanks,

Bobby

   

   












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Re: [H] VM second NIC

[Jamie Furtner]

If you want to dedicate the NIC to VMware, turn off all the protocols (like 
IPv4, IPv6, Client for Microsoft Networks) the host has attached to the NIC so 
the host won't try to use it for anything.

By using the virtual network bridge mode, the VMs will appear to be other 
systems directly on your guest LAN and can communicate with other devices on 
that network. This allows you to isolate the traffic of the VMs without 
actually putting your host system into both networks.

Jamie

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 On Dec 13, 2013, at 12:06 AM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org wrote:
 
 
 OK thanks! Is this done with the same router.. or better if I put it on a 
 different router IP
 
 
 At 09:58 PM 12/12/2013, you wrote:
 On 12/12/13 7:31 PM, Winterlight wrote:
  I have a new computer build = windows 8 PRO.  My PC motherboard has
  the usual 2 NICs. I want to install VMware version 9 workstation and
  have it use the second NIC. I have a three router network that
  isolates a WIFI connection from my LAN for employees, friends, family
  to use. I am thinking I can plug the second NIC into the router that
  outputs to my LAN and the other wifi routers and then point the VM to
  that NIC... is something like this possible. do I need to use the
  second NIC...  how do I go about this? Thanks
 
 There is a vmware network configuration tool
 
 You would setup another vmnet interface that bridges with the second
 physical nic.  I use vmnet2 for this in a lot of my setups.
 
 Then when you setup a vm, if you use vmnet0 (aka bridged default) it
 will bridge to your primary/internal network, if you use vmnet2 (under
 custom) it will bridge to your second guest network that you want it in.
 
 -Harry
 

Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.

[Jamie Furtner]

Can I boot off the Win 8 DVD and install that way or do I need to start
the install from within windows 7?
You need to start the upgrade from within Windows - booting straight
from the disc won't upgrade and your key may not work either (as it's an
upgrade key, not a full install key).

I guess there is no way I can just install Windows 8.1 direct.. can I?
No, you must install 8 and then do the 8.1 upgrade through the store.
Even if you could, I don't think you'd actually want to, as 8.1 doesn't
upgrade 7, it does a migration. That means that you would have to
reinstall all your apps. Your user account is migrated over so all your
settings and data are kept, but the apps aren't brought over.

Jamie


On 2013-11-18 12:19 AM, Winterlight wrote:
 Last year I bought one of the 25 dollar Windows 8 Pro upgrade iso
 download deals from MS. I am now ready to install it and have a few
 questions.
 I have all ready installed Win7 on another hard drive with the boot
 drive located on a clean SSD ready for Windows 8 to do the upgrade.
 Can I boot off the Win 8 DVD and install that way or do I need to
 start the install from within windows 7?
 I guess there is no way I can just install Windows 8.1 direct.. can I?
 thanks m


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Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.

[Jamie Furtner]

I don't know if Win8 supports a side-by-side upgrade installation -
that's something I haven't tried. All the literature I've seen only
talks of in-place upgrades.

The custom install option might do what you're looking for, but I'm not
sure.

Jamie

On 2013-11-18 1:45 PM, Winterlight wrote:
 OK I installed from within windows 7, but Win 8 never gave me the
 opportunity to install in another partition so it overwrote the
 Windows 7 install. I must of done something wrong but what? When it
 asked if I wanted to keep data and libraries I send no thinking it
 would ask me where I wanted to put Win 8... maybe that was my mistake.
 Right now I am just going to restore my windows 7 install from my
 image file backup and then try again.


 At 12:15 PM 11/18/2013, you wrote:
 Can I boot off the Win 8 DVD and install that way or do I need to start
 the install from within windows 7?
 You need to start the upgrade from within Windows - booting straight
 from the disc won't upgrade and your key may not work either (as it's an
 upgrade key, not a full install key).

 I guess there is no way I can just install Windows 8.1 direct.. can I?
 No, you must install 8 and then do the 8.1 upgrade through the store.
 Even if you could, I don't think you'd actually want to, as 8.1 doesn't
 upgrade 7, it does a migration. That means that you would have to
 reinstall all your apps. Your user account is migrated over so all your
 settings and data are kept, but the apps aren't brought over.

 Jamie


 On 2013-11-18 12:19 AM, Winterlight wrote:
  Last year I bought one of the 25 dollar Windows 8 Pro upgrade iso
  download deals from MS. I am now ready to install it and have a few
  questions.
  I have all ready installed Win7 on another hard drive with the boot
  drive located on a clean SSD ready for Windows 8 to do the upgrade.
  Can I boot off the Win 8 DVD and install that way or do I need to
  start the install from within windows 7?
  I guess there is no way I can just install Windows 8.1 direct.. can I?
  thanks m
 

 -- 
 Jamie Furtner ja...@furtner.ca


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Re: [H] Win 8 file system

[Jamie Furtner]

Yes, Windows 8 uses NTFS as its primary file system (with a few
interesting enhancements for reliability over Win7). It also supports
FAT, FAT32 and exFAT, just like Windows 7 does.

Windows Server 2012 support a new file system (ReFS) for storage drives,
but it hasn't trickled down to the client OS yet.

Jamie

On 2013-11-16 4:59 PM, Winterlight wrote:
 Does Windows 8 use the same file system as Windows 7?

 BTW I recently asked if you could use HDMI as dual link monitor cable.
 I tried it, and it works fine. I am currently using a HDMI high speed
 cable to run my 30 inch monitor at 2560 x 1600 and it works just fine.


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Re: [H] W8 classic menu ?

[Jamie Furtner]

Not from Microsoft - I've used Classic Shell and it can be pretty close to 
Windows 7.

If you haven't already, I'd suggest updating to 8.1 (free through the Windows 
Store). It does bring the start button back, but not any of the menus. You can 
also configure 8.1 to boot to the desktop, and to default to showing all apps.

Jamie

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 On Oct 31, 2013, at 8:38 AM, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote:
 
 Is the classic menu available in windows 8 ?
 I see on Google add on ones.
 got my son's new laptop, not fired it up yet.
 have a replacement MB for the old one.
 
 games a foot 8-)
 thanks
 FP
 
 Date:  Thursday, October 31st, 2013
 
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Re: [H] Again MSHOME vs. WORKGROUP?

[Jamie Furtner]

On 2013-09-19 3:56 PM, DSinc wrote:
 All of my Brother's LAN clients appear to be: WORKGROUP=MSHOME. Is
 this an OS default?
 I do know how to change this value. And, all of my Brother's clients
 are set to get their network specs
 automatically - the MS Default (like from his router). Fine.

 When he brings his laptop to my home once a year, he can somehow get
 to the internet via my router, but he
 can not get to any of my other LAN services/PC's//appliances. Odd. I
 used to admin his laptop 'into' my LAN, but this
 never really fixed everything. Confusing?

 Is WORKGROUP= ? a router DHCP assigned value?
 I have recently turned on my router's DHCP server, and the logic seems
 to work fine.

 My home LAN and all of my PC clients us WORKGROUP=WORKGROUP (probably
 from back in Win2K times).
 All of my PC's and appliances work just fine.

 If this makes little sense, I apologize. I just had to ask.
 Duncan


Workgroup is not something a router sets (at all - it's not a property
of a DHCP scope), instead it's statically set in System properties. What
its intention was to have a collection of computers that are on the same
network and share resources, but not in a corporate domain (Active
Directory). It's an arbitrary name you assign, and on new installs I
believe the default is WORKGROUP, but I've seen MSHOME on some people's
machines - it might be a default in the non-pro edition of Windows.

Workgroups have always been slightly imperfect in my experience - what's
supposed to happen is that machines broadcast to find all the other
machines in the same workgroup and show them in network neighbourhood.
I've occasionally found that some machines don't respond or are never
browsable via network neighbourhood, but you should still be able to
navigate to your other machines using the a syntax like \\MACHINENAME or
\\IP.ADDRESS. Don't forget that newer operating systems may not turn
on sharing by default, and depending on the sharing model (Simple or
not) it still may not work even if you navigate directly to the machines
- everything has to use the same model I think.

Jamie

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Re: [H] XBOX 360

[Jamie Furtner]

On 2012-11-08 2:35 PM, Winterlight wrote:
I am about to order a  Xbox 360 4GB Console which I need to use as an 
Media Center extender for my SiliconDust HDHomeRun PRIME HDHR3 TV 
turner. It is the cheapest, basic XBOX 360. I assume if I do end up 
needing a hard drive I just need to plug a USB2 drive into one of the 
five ports? 
Yes, but only two devices up to 16 GB each (32 GB total) can be used for 
Xbox content (like games, downloaded content, and save games). Space 
over 16 GB on a device will never be used by the Xbox. The Xbox can read 
USB storage devices to play content (in FAT, FAT32 and HFS+ formats only 
- not NTFS!).


If you need more space for Xbox content you can purchase a hard drive 
like these: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_components_and_accessories#Storage


When you turn these on is there anything on them other then the OS? 

Maybe a few game demos in addition to the Xbox dashboard (OS).

They don't have a DVD player so I assume all games are bought from 
XBOX Live and are downloaded...correct? Thanks
All Xboxes do have an optical drive for DVDs and CDs - downloading isn't 
your only option for games. It will play DVDs and audio CDs 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#cite_ref-FY13_Q1_3-0).


It doesn't sound like you plan on using it as a gaming device primarily, 
however realize that some games aren't fully functional without being 
installed (some content copied from the optical disc to Xbox storage). 
The same 4 GB is used for all downloaded games and game saves, so that 
may become an issue (and force you to purchase a HDD). You can use a 16 
GB USB memory key to get by for more casual usage.


Given that your planned use I don't see any issues with 4 GB but you 
should be aware of the limitation.


Jamie


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Re: [H] Really foggy here.

[Jamie Furtner]

 Check Tools | Options | General tab. Ensure the Save files to... path 
is where you want it (desktop, a downloads folder, my documents, etc.).


Foxit is portable - it shouldn't require installation or any 
registration on the machine.


Jamie

On 2010-07-14 11:11 AM, DSinc wrote:

I use XP pro. Sorry!
I use the FireFox browser. (v3.6.6)
I use Foxit. (v4.0.0.0619)
I use JAVA. (v6, update 20)

I think I have a glitch with XP I have not been able to solve.

I do not yet know why, but when I try to download PDF stuff USING FF, 
XP chronically defaults to C:/DS/ME/??/temp. I've dealt with this. 
Now, I am tired of digging into XP. Yea, I'm moderately pissed. Just 
don't know WHO to be pissed at, XP/FireFox/Foxit/?!


I accept that MS does not care for Foxit or FireFox. And, I freely 
accept that I might be living thru 'stitching' since Foxit went from 
V3 to V4. Hmm.


Can I change XP to dl PDF's somewhere else?
I seem to be in a war between MS/Foxit/Java/FireFox. Really odd.

Is Foxit one of these programs that NEEDS to LIVE where XP wants to 
INSTALL TO? (c:/windows/program files/?)
[my Foxit lives on d:\foxit/, as I generally do with all of my major 
helper apps.)

Best,
Duncan

Re: [H] Really foggy here.

[Jamie Furtner]

 The path is in Firefox's options. Note, though that as Thane noted 
that you're seeing correct behaviour if you choose to open the PDF 
document instead of saving it to disk. It's considered ephemeral then, 
and won't be saved to your chosen location. You can choose to save it as 
from within Foxit, or save it to disk and then open it from the 
downloads window.


Jamie

On 2010-07-14 12:26 PM, DSinc wrote:

Jamie,
Understand pointer. Where?
Foxit? FireFox? Java?  :)
Willing and will dick around :)
Hell, I'll check/dick with Foxit 1st!!!
Best,
Duncan


On 07/14/2010 13:14, Jamie Furtner wrote:

Check Tools | Options | General tab. Ensure the Save files to... path is
where you want it (desktop, a downloads folder, my documents, etc.).

Foxit is portable - it shouldn't require installation or any
registration on the machine.

Jamie

On 2010-07-14 11:11 AM, DSinc wrote:

I use XP pro. Sorry!
I use the FireFox browser. (v3.6.6)
I use Foxit. (v4.0.0.0619)
I use JAVA. (v6, update 20)

I think I have a glitch with XP I have not been able to solve.

I do not yet know why, but when I try to download PDF stuff USING FF,
XP chronically defaults to C:/DS/ME/??/temp. I've dealt with this.
Now, I am tired of digging into XP. Yea, I'm moderately pissed. Just
don't know WHO to be pissed at, XP/FireFox/Foxit/?!

I accept that MS does not care for Foxit or FireFox. And, I freely
accept that I might be living thru 'stitching' since Foxit went from
V3 to V4. Hmm.

Can I change XP to dl PDF's somewhere else?
I seem to be in a war between MS/Foxit/Java/FireFox. Really odd.

Is Foxit one of these programs that NEEDS to LIVE where XP wants to
INSTALL TO? (c:/windows/program files/?)
[my Foxit lives on d:\foxit/, as I generally do with all of my major
helper apps.)
Best,
Duncan

Re: [H] eudora in windows 7 ?

[Jamie Furtner]

For the first time, try running it as an administrator (Right click, Run 
as Administrator). It needs admin rights to set the default email 
program and it won't have that with UAC on Vista and Windows 7.


Jamie

On 2010-03-13 6:55 PM, Winterlight wrote:


 I am running Eudora  in Windows 7 Pro off a Truecypt virtual drive.I 
didn't have to do anything except make sure the drive stayed on the 
same drive letter. However, I have never been able to get the default 
email thing to work in 7, Vista, or XP, particularly when using 
multiple browsers. MS always tries to use Outlook regardless of what I 
tell it to do.

w

At 05:15 PM 3/13/2010, you wrote:
copied Eudora over the network to my windows 7 box but when I run it 
it tells me it can not update the registry to make it default mail 
client.


would I actually have to do a install ?

went to custom program access but see no way to add it, must be a way 
to manually put it in the registry.


thanks
fp






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Re: [H] Umm, testing?

[Jamie Furtner]

You can do it still - Right click on the desktop - Personalize - Window 
Colour - Advanced appearance settings. Same dialog in Vista / XP / 2000, 
just hidden away a bit.


Jamie

On 2010-03-11 4:14 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:

Speaking of Win7 (glad the list isn't dead btw!), anyone know how you can
make the icon size and spacing smaller on your desktop like you could in
WinXP?

I just installed Win7 Ent on an IBM T61 and I already right-clicked on the
desktop, selected View, Small Icons and they're still way too big, and the
spacing b/w them is huge...I also made the taskbar icons smaller too, but
that's not what I ultimately want.

So in WinXP you could right-click on the Desktop, select the Appearance tab,
Advanced, and then select Icon and Icon Spacing (Horizontal or Vertical)
from the drop-down menu, and make the icons smaller and drastically reduce
the space b/w them, which was very nice.  On my 1400x1050 15 laptop screen,
I currently have 17 icons vertical and 24 across (and most of the spaces
taken up with icons-usually favorites but sometimes docs, etc).

Is there anything like that for Win7 as googling it just got the WinXP
instructions, which AFAIK don't apply to Win7...

BINO


-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:19 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Umm, testing?

Not a lot of activity recently (on the list).  I suppose I can do one
inquiry here.  I am running Win7 x64 and one of the pending (I've kept
it pending) updates is KB971033, which is a patch that, for my
protection, will search my computer to find out if there are any
cracks/patches/loaders for Win7 that indicate that I have a pirate copy
of windows.  Know Microsoft's track record on this, I hesitate to
install it, just waiting for all the false positives top pop out.
What's the word on how this patch is doing?

Steve


On 3/11/2010 4:25 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:
   

Just checking if the list is still alive since there hasn't been *any* (or
at least I haven't gotten any) email since SteveT's email on Tues at
 

4:39pm
   

on the wireless printer stuff.and this time I wasn't unsubscribed from the
list; checked that first!!




BINO





 


   



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- Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie)
It's not safe...
For them.
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Re: [H] Windows Easy Transfer - 32bit to 64 bit

[Jamie Furtner]

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On 2009-12-29, at 4:08 AM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net  
wrote:



I'm planning my conversion over to SSD.


Is one to interpret this to mean you can go from 64-bit to 32-bit  
using WET, but you can go from 32-bit to 64-bit using WET?  Or, does  
it mean you can only transfer between windows versions at the same  
bit level (32-bit to 32-bit, 64-bit to 64-bit)?


I'm just trying to make the transfer go quicker and easier and avoid  
having to dig out my email, outlook, internet, etc files which are  
buried down in Windows' ratholes.


32-bit to 64-bit is supported, yes (it's actually the only supported  
mechanism to transfer settings, you can't upgrade from 32-bit Vista/ 
Win7 to 64-bit).


Going backwards isn't supported.

Jamie

Re: [H] Win2K/XP to Vista/Win7

[Jamie Furtner]

A lot of these folders are NTFS junctions, which Explorer doesn't  
support very well. If you look at the folder in a command prompt  
you'll see the type is JUNCTION instead of DIR. The folders have  
been moved under the AppData folder in Vista and the junctions support  
older apps that don't know they have moved.


Jamie

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On 2009-12-19, at 12:10 PM, Joe User joeu...@chronic.org wrote:


Hello,

I'm stumped on this; when I try to view the contents of the users dir
in Vista (assume win7 also) such as local settings or cookies from 2K
or XP I get blah blah is not accessible. The folder was moved or
removed. Well it's not - it is there. So I set myself up with
permissions using the administrator account and give myself full
control. Yet, I cannot view these dirs. So I take ownership - same
thing. Can't view the files.

How can I view these Vista files in the users dir from Win2K or XP?

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Regards,
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Re: [H] DVI to HDMI Adapters

[Jamie Furtner]

Yes, they work. It more depends on the drivers - they have to support  
the resolutions the TV supports. I've used a DVI-HDMI cable to attach  
a mac mini and a PC to my Sony XBR5. Both worked fine, though my  
experience is limited to Nvidia cards. I'd expect ATI cards to work  
correctly too with recent drivers.


Jamie

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On 2009-11-25, at 8:36 AM, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote:


Okay, I've been reading on the web and this has got me confused.  Are
there any real adapters that can take the output from an NVIDIA video
card and connect to the HDMI input of my widescreen TV?  The audio can
have an alternate route, that's no problem, I'm just wondering about
the video.  Or is there an interface that can do both audio and video
from an NVIDIA video card to HDMI for TV?

I've seen a bunch of stuff that says yes and a lot of stuff that says
no.  Just beginning to look at products, but most of them will not
tell you what they work with, just that they are DVI to HDMI adapters.

Thanks...Steve

Re: [H] Recovering an Admin Password in Vista

[Jamie Furtner]

Steve Tomporowski wrote:
Short version:  My last child in the house, my last son, has a Vista 
install that my wife 'wisely' decided to place an admin password on 
and then promptly forgot it.  Now the only account that we know the 
password to, my son's, is locked down and we can't install anything.  
Is there any way, other than a reinstall, to recover or change the 
admin password?


ThanksSteve


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I've used the tool from http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ to reset 
the administrator password in the past on Windows 2000, and as I recall 
it led you through the whole process.


Jamie

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Re: [H] Windows 7 install

[Jamie Furtner]

I dual-booted the Beta and Vista with no issues for a while - just make 
sure to install to another drive or partition. 
http://lifehacker.com/5126781/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-with-xp-or-vista


Windows includes a boot loader and will automatically add Vista and 
Windows 7 to the list and let you pick and choose. You don't need a 
third party one.


Jamie


Rick Glazier wrote:

My first guess would be you would need a third party
OS Bootloader Program to sort this all out.

Acronis has that as part of the Disk Director Suite, and
there is a freeware one that sounds like GAG (or something).
(Not an inpriring name for something this important... grin)

Rick Glazier

From: Tony Riederer
I am wondering if there is any problems or special things that need 
to be
done here. I have Vista Ultimate 64 on one of my puters. I have 
Windows 7
Pro from my school that I would like to install on the same machine 
and dual
boot them. It is not an upgrade edition. Just wondering if anyone 
knows if

there is a certain way to do this.




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- Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie)
It's not safe...
For them.
- River Tam (Serenity movie)

Re: [H] Google Wave

[Jamie Furtner]

If you have any more me too please. Thanks!

Jamie

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On 2009-10-18, at 5:57 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar zulfiqar.naus...@siemens.com 
 wrote:



I've got invites I can send out.

Who wants them?  I can give away 10.

Thanks!

Re: [H] Wii Rockstar and Guitar Hero

[Jamie Furtner]

It depends on the instrument and game. Look at http://www.joystiq.com/Instrument-Compatibility-Matrix/#Wii 
 to check your instruments against the matrix. Generally, newer games  
are compatible with all instruments, though.


Jamie

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On 2009-10-03, at 7:15 AM, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com 
 wrote:



At 10:08 AM 03/10/2009, Thane Sherrington wrote:
I have Guitar Hero World Tour with all the instruments.  Is there a  
way to use these instruments with Rock Star or Rock Star 2?


Sorry, I guess it's called Rock Band rather than Rock Star.  Guess  
I'm not very hip. :)


T

Re: [H] Time to Reinstall

[Jamie Furtner]

Check your BIOS - my ASUS P5K lets me change the order of hard drives 
and optical drives. If you're given that option, that would be easiest.


Jamie

Steve Tomporowski wrote:
It's time to reinstall the OS, which will be either Vista or 7 and I'm 
going to move the current boot drive to be storage only (I have some 
questions as to its ability as a boot drive).  So, the question 
becomes, what's the easiest way to do this without having this drive 
still be the boot drive?  This is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P and there 
are 8 SATA ports, 6 are labelled SATA 2_0 through SATA2_5, two others 
are supposedly 3GB ports labelled GSSATA2_0 and GSSATA2_1.  Case is 
very crowded so I want to have to do as little rewiring as possible, 
so can I add a drive to one of the unoccupied GS ports and have it 
come out as the boot drive, or do I have to put the new drive in the 
port from this drive?  It would seem a shame if the boot drive can't 
be a 3.0GB port.  Manual is unclear here, I just want to make sure 
that the old drive is not used by Windows for anything to do with 
boot.  The drive has too much info for me to just wipe right now.


Thanks...Steve


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It's not safe...
For them.
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Re: [H] Internet Question - DNS Relay?

[Jamie Furtner]

DSinc wrote:


What happens if I change my clients to point to my 'Router/Gateway' 
for any/all DNS calls, AND, SELECT DNS Relay on my router?
Clients will query the router, and the router will query your configured 
DNS servers if it needs to. Unless configured otherwise, clients won't 
go directly to your ISP's DNS servers.


The advantage of this is that if the router already has the answer then 
it can just give it - it caches results for all clients that use it. The 
disadvantage is that the router may actually slow down DNS queries by a 
tiny amount - it's more work to process the queries and check its 
internal cache (if the entry is not cached) instead of letting the 
client go directly to your ISP's server. The difference is so small that 
I doubt there's any way you would ever notice. It also lets you easily 
switch DNS servers for all your clients if they use the router - only 
one place to change instead of visiting each client.


It's most useful when clients get their configuration through DHCP.


It seems that I push more work upstairs where services exist, rather 
than churning around within my LAN where answers do not exist.  And 
no, I do NOT use a Domain Server, yet!

Thank you,
Duncan

This has nothing to do with Windows domains - DNS has existed and been 
working for longer then Windows has been on networks.


Jamie


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- Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie)
It's not safe...
For them.
- River Tam (Serenity movie)

Re: [H] windows 7 upgrade confussion

[Jamie Furtner]

Winterlight wrote:
I purchased two Windows 7 Pro upgrades back when they were offering 
them. I have a desktop running Vista 64 Home Premium OEM and a laptop 
I got last year that came with Vista 64 Home premium.  When MS offered 
the Advance copy of Windows 7 upgrades I grabbed two of the 100 dollar 
PRO versions, having had my fill of the Home Premium limitations.


In the last month I have been reading confusing stories about Windows 
7 upgrade DVDs which seem to imply that if you are running Vista Home 
Premium, you can only upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium using a 
upgrade DVDor if you have Vista Business you can upgrade to 
Windows 7 PRO. Is this apply to everybody or is this just for  those 
who bought a computer and are getting a free Windows 7 upgrade.
For in-place upgrades, it's supposed to be like-to-like versions 
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772579%28WS.10%29.aspx). 
So far no information has come out around how people who can't do 
in-place upgrades will be able to do the install. The thinking so far is 
that it'll work like the Vista upgrade clean-install hack, but nobody 
really knows yet. As you're not looking at doing an in-place upgrade, I 
think we'll have to wait until we're closer to public release and the 
upgrade disks are out.


Licensing is separate, and I haven't seen anything around how that is 
supposed to work.


Also, if I install my Windows 7 PRO to a separate partition of my 
current Vista 64 OEM desktop, so I can dual boot them. Will Windows 7 
deactivate my Vista 64 after authenticating it for upgrade purposes. 
Or will it allow me to keep running Vista 64 OEM on it's original 
computer. In other words, can I keep and dual boot the Vista 64 OEM 
after installing the Windows 7 Pro upgrade DVD.
I've never seen a previous version disabled before. The RC didn't touch 
my other Vista install when I did a parallel install, but I wiped my 
drives before I installed the RTM version.


Jamie

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I aim to misbehave
- Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie)
It's not safe...
For them.
- River Tam (Serenity movie)

Re: [H] USB keyboard problem

[Jamie Furtner]

Try them in different ports - Windows should recognize them if they're 
plugged into the same ports that they were plugged into before. I've 
used this trick to get a USB wireless NIC to use its previously stored 
network credentials instead of having to re-enter them.


I don't know if setting USB legacy options in the BIOS will make any 
difference, as Windows takes over control of the USB controllers when it 
starts up. It might be worth taking a look for it just in case Windows 
is trying to load drivers for the USB controllers.


Jamie


DSinc wrote:

Thane,
I do so want to read the answer to this one!
It addresses why I did not choose the m/b's suggested months ago that 
required USB.  I still use the old PS/2 interface...(P5Q3)

I know; slow, behind the times!
Thank you so much for this query.
Best,
Duncan


Thane Sherrington wrote:
I've got a computer that boots up to XP and immediately comes up with 
the found new hardware wizard.  The problem is that it has a USB 
keyboard and mouse, and these don't work, and the drivers for these 
won't install because they are blocked by the found new hardware 
wizard that is for some other device (as far as I can tell.)  There 
are no PS2 ports, so I can't use that - any ideas?


T








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I aim to misbehave
- Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie)
It's not safe...
For them.
- River Tam (Serenity movie)

Re: [H] FireFox confusion

[Jamie Furtner]

IE Tab works fine with Firefox 3.5.[01] - I use it to avoid having to 
pull up IE.


Jamie

swzaske wrote:
Down with IE is right but I still have to use it far too often because 
a web site fails to render properly in Firefox. Wish I could get rid 
of IE entirely. Should try IE Tab and see if it works with 3.5.1.



DSinc wrote:

All,
The deed is done! All my units now use FireFox v3.5.1.

Interestingly, I observe that FF seems to hide some user data in 
its' own sequestered space.
Even though I fully de-installed v3.0.12 first; when v3.5.1 did 
install next, it found all my user data and just trucked on to 
completion! I can suppose this data was in the magic /profile 
directory. No need to comprehend the 'magic' at this time. Very glad 
it is there and working!


I am favorably impressed with this behavior.

Just another nail in IE's coffin!!! LOL!
Duncan


Thane Sherrington wrote:

At 12:30 PM 22/07/2009, DSinc wrote:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10292587-83.html

So I stumble across the above cnet article about FireFox.
Have all my machines up to v3.0.12 ATM, but I detect a strong push 
to update again to v3.5.1. :)


Does anyone on the List use the new v3.5.1?

Can I still use/add NoScript and CS-Lite to this new version?


I'm on 3.5.1 and noscript with no problems.  Definitely upgrade.

T









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I aim to misbehave
- Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie)
It's not safe...
For them.
- River Tam (Serenity movie)

Re: [H] Vista batch file elevation

[Jamie Furtner]

Thane Sherrington wrote:
Is there a way to have a batch file launch a second batch file at an 
elevated privilege level?  I have a batch file (named runme.bat) 
that calls a batch file that does some registry changes, and I'd like 
the runme.bat to call the second at an elevated privilege level (and 
ask the user once to allow the elevation rather than multiple times.)  
I tried:


runas /user:administrator fixit.bat

 but then the system asks for an administrator password and there 
isn't one.


I know that I can right click on RunMe.bat and choose Run as 
Administrator, but that's a bit clunky.


T


http://jpassing.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/launch-elevated-processes-from-the-command-line/ 
seems to do what you want - UAC is disabled on this machine so I can't 
easily check it out.


Jamie

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- Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie)
It's not safe...
For them.
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Re: [H] VPN

[Jamie Furtner]

Winterlight wrote:
 Using a VPN to protect yourself when using public WAP involves logging
 into the public WAP, and then using a VPN from your PC to your home or
 work PC and then using that safe internet connection. Everything in
 between your laptop and your home PC is encrypted so nobody can snoop.
 Do I have it right?

 Is there good VPN freeware available? If not what is good VPN
 software? Thanks.

Generally, yes, you're right. Your traffic between your laptop and home
network is encrypted, so nobody can snoop on that traffic. Your laptop
is still vulnerable to hacks from people on the same WAP, but depending
on your network and VPN configuration all of your traffic can go through
your home PC and then out onto the Internet.

I use OpenVPN (www.openvpn.net) as my VPN software (Windows clients,
Linux server). I've found it to be solid, though setting it up initially
wasn't easy. There are howtos and a good amount of help on configuring
it on the site.

Jamie

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I aim to misbehave
- Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie)
It's not safe...
For them.
- River Tam (Serenity movie)

Re: [H] Dual Boot questions

[Jamie Furtner]

'Veech ve...@earthlink.net' said:


Folks I need a bit of feedback regarding creating a dual boot system.

I currently have 2 HDs running, a smaller one has XP Media Center as
the OS and the second larger HD has D, E and G partitions used for
storing files.

I want to install XP Pro on the same computer and have the option to
boot to either one as needed.

Is it fairly simple to create a new partition on the existing HD and
install XP Pro on that partition?  Or is it better to buy a new HD and
install XP Pro on the new HD?


If you have the contiguous free space on your current C: drive and the  
tools to resize the partition then that's probably easier, otherwise a  
new drive is probably the easier of the two routes (especially if the  
C: drive is already strapped for space).




If I am able to install the second OS on the same HD as the first one,
will both OSes be able to recognize the files stored on the D, E and G
partitions?

If I need to install the second OS on a separate HD, will it be able to
recognize and access the files stored on the other HD on the D, E and G
partitions?


Yes to both. You may have to change the drive mappings to be correct  
but they will all be accessible. If they're formatted with FAT32 then  
there's no security to worry about. If they're formatted as NTFS,  
members of the local Administrators group have full control over newly  
created partitions by default. You'll also be able to see your  
existing C: drive - it may stay as C: or be another drive letter. You  
can unmap the drive if you want through Disk Management.


Jamie

Re: [H] DVD Divx players... RIP Philips DVP-642

[Jamie Furtner]

Unfortunately, that's true - the PS3 will not play MKV files without  
changing their format. You can use a tool like MKV2VOB to change the  
container format to one the PS3 understands - from what I've seen,  
it's not the video or audio codecs that the PS3 doesn't work with,  
just the container format.


 Jamie

'Scott Sipe csco...@gmail.com' said:


I'm fairly certain I'm going to buy a ps3 in the next month or so to
replace my very aged xbox media center (xbmc). I understand the PS3
can't natively play mkv files though?

Scott

On Feb 8, 2009, at 4:55 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:

Your fine but you might consider a ps3. Bluray, full divx and   
network support.

Sent via BlackBerry

-Original Message-
From: Joe User joeu...@chronic.org

Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 00:31:32
To: Joe Userhardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] DVD Divx players... RIP Philips DVP-642


Hello,

Saturday, February 7, 2009, 10:12:12 AM, I wrote:


Hello HWG,



So, I went to watch 'Ghostbusters' this morning as nothing was on
any of the 500 channels I get on DirecTV. The little red light
just blinked away and the tray wouldn't open nor would the
display come on. I unplugged it - waited - and plugged it back
in. No joy. This is the second of two that have died. I swear
they put timers in these things.



So now, I am looking for another Divx player. The Philips
DVP5140 is looking like my best bet. It does Divx Ultra, which
the 642 didn't - but I didn't encounter divx Ultra that much.



I currently use this 642 through S-Video but I have RCA
available also. No HDMI. Might have ability to do component RGB
type hookup, if I shuffle some stuff around.



I am looking for other suggestions before I get this unit. Is
there something better out there?



Ok, going to assume I am doing OK with my choice here.


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Re: [H] Pending updates

[Jamie Furtner]

Gary wrote:
 Trying to install EndPoint and get message that there are Pending updates'
 please reboot first.
 Doesn't help...same message. Any Ideas??

 Gary

   
There's probably pending file moves that the installer is noticing and
aborting over. You can use Sysinternals' pendmoves to see that and then
clear the registry key at HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations to try the install again. 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897556.aspx

You probably have something running on boot that's adding entries into
the registry key. I've seen this from a HP printer driver.

Jamie

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- Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie)
It's not safe...
For them.
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Re: [H] FF query?

[Jamie Furtner]

FF3 - Tools | Options, Privacy tab, Clear Now... button. You can  
choose what to delete. To view your cookies - same window, the Show  
Cookies button.


You can also tell Firefox to clear it on shutdown (the checkbox just  
above Always clear my private data when I close Firefox).


Jamie

Quoting Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


Are you talking about temporary internet files or history?


Brian

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:07 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


In IE I could 'delete files' (like erase part of the cache) whenever I
chose to do this-like once a day.
And then there is 'delete cookies.' Or even SEE what cookies are present.
No, Brian, I have not added your rec'd cookie extension..I am still
getting trained by
NoScript.  This extension will stay! Very nicely protective.

How do I do this in FF?  I can not find this..
Best,
Duncan

Re: [H] STEAM and cheat codes

[Jamie Furtner]

Winterlight wrote:
I am playing Half Life 2 on STEAM, and I am getting really board  with 
all the jumping, stacking, bobbing crap can you use cheat codes in 
Steam... and if so how?  Anybody know any good mods that will work?


First link when searching for half life 2 cheats: 
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2/hints.html . You may have to 
turn on the console in options. Haven't had to use them in original HL2, 
but worked great in Ep1 when I was stuck.


All the cheats should work in a single-player game - none should work in 
multi-player.


Jamie

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- Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie)
It's not safe...
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- River Tam (Serenity movie)

Re: [H] Steam Account?

[Jamie Furtner]

With the Orange Box set, Valve is doing something a bit different for 
people who already owned parts of it: They can give away their old 
copies of whatever they own that's duplicated in the Orange Box.


For example, I owned HL2 and HL2: Ep1, and I then bought the Orange Box. 
Through Steam I was able to give away my old copies of HL2 and HL2: 
Ep1 to a friend for no cost to them or me. That's what your friend is 
talking about.


I can't give away Portal, Team Fortress 2, or HL2: Ep2 (as I didn't own 
them before).


I think that Steam itself is more anti-piracy and auto-updating then 
anything else. The biggest downside of Steam is that the game is 
permanently tied to my account, so I can't give the disk to a friend and 
let them play it - they need my Steam account to be able to play it. I'm 
sure that Valve and other vendors really like that downside.


Jamie

FORC5 wrote:

sounds interesting. I will investigate further
I always use virtual ROMs so I do not have to play find the CD/DVD game. 


fp
At 10:49 AM 11/10/2007, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with:
  

I think your friend is talking about something else.  Steam is the
content delivery service that Valve came up with to combat piracy.
Basically if you have Steam installed and an account you can purchase
games and download them to your HD instead of buying the box and
installing it.  The pros are that you don't need to go to the store,
it will automatically patch the games, you don't need a CD in the
drive to play and it links all the Steam games through a pretty good
online community.

The downside is that every time you want to play the game (single
player or multiplayer) it needs to authenticate with the Steam server.
So if the server goes down or your internet connection goes down you
are screwed.

I installed Steam for the first time when I bought the Orange Box and
I have to say it is pretty good.  Well coded and gives a consistent
method of installing, updating, uninstalling, and playing all the
games bought through it.  And no need to keep a box or CD with a long
number on it handy for when you have to reinstall.

On Nov 10, 2007 12:39 PM, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Pros and cons ?

Have a friend says he can give me some games IF I have a steams account. Isn't 
this something to do with cheating or something. Have not investigated. Have 
tried to stay clear of games that require these kind of options
fp


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Re: [H] Question about removing WinXP partition from Ubuntu dual boot

[Jamie Furtner]

Brian Weeden wrote:

I am finally ready to cut the cord after using Ubuntu for a couple
months now.  I am currently dual-booting with Windows on the first
partition and Ubuntu on the 2nd and would like to get rid of windows
but need to make sure I'm not going to fubar my Ubuntu install.

Is grub installed on the first (ie windows) partition?  In other
words, by removing that partition is it going to have an effect on
getting the system to boot?
  
Grub is usually installed into the MBR and contains components on the 
Linux partition that contains /boot. It can be installed into a 
partition, but then would be installed into the boot sector of your 
Linux partition, and the Windows boot menu would need to be set up to 
load that boot sector (Ubuntu setup doesn't do this, last I checked - 
this is something that you'd need to have done yourself). You can tell 
how the machine is set up based on the order that the boot loaders load 
- if the order is Grub with Windows as an option, then it's installed 
into the MBR; if the order is Windows loader with Ubuntu as an option 
then Grub is installed into the boot sector of your Linux partition.

Also, will removing that partition change the order and mapping of
partitions in Ubuntu?  RIght now my structure is as follows in order
from first partition to last on the HD:
  
It will depend on the tool you use to remove the Windows partition; some 
of them will rewrite the partition table and renumber your primary 
partitions (partitions numbered less then 5). If you use the basic Linux 
or Windows fdisk, it shouldn't change the partition order.


I'm not sure if Ubuntu uses partition UUIDs (unique identifiers in the 
partition's boot sector) or if it uses device nodes instead - take a 
look at /etc/fstab, if the first column looks something like this line:
   /dev/hda6   /   reiserfs
defaults,auto,user_xattr,acl1 1
then Ubuntu is using device nodes and you may have to update the file. 
If it says something like
   UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6  /  reiserfs  
defaults,auto,user_xattr,acl1 1

or
   LABEL=root   /   reiserfs
defaults,auto,user_xattr,acl1 1
then it's more robust and should adjust as the partitions are renumbered 
automatically.


Even if the partition order does change, it's not extremely difficult to 
use a Live boot CD and rewrite your /etc/fstab file to point at the 
correct partitions and/or update your Grub configuration. It isn't what 
I'd consider simple as it requires work at the command line, but it's 
not hard.


Jamie

/dev/sda (my only HD)
/dev/sda1 (windows ntfs partition)
/dev/sda3 ((ubuntu ext3 partition)
/dev/sda2 (extended patition)
/dev/sda5 (linux swap within the extended)
/dev/sda6 (fat32 within the extended)

  


Jamie

Re: [H] Disk erase tool?

[Jamie Furtner]

Brian Weeden wrote:

I know we have discussed this before but I lost the link - what's a
good freeware app for erasing / reformatting a HD before selling /
giving it away?


Darik's Boot and Nuke

http://dban.sf.net

Jamie

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Re: [H] cda to mp3 free?

[Jamie Furtner]

Joe User wrote:

What are you guys using to rip cd's to mp3 - preferably that's free?
  

  

CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

Uses LAME to encode to MP3 out of the box.

Jamie

Re: [H] SQL Server 2005, IIS, and VPC 2007.

[Jamie Furtner]

Bobby Heid wrote:


Hey,

I have SQL Server 2005 standard installed on my pc.  What I want to do 
is to install SQL 2005 standard on XP Pro inside of a Virtual PC 2007 
VM.  And I have done that.


What I have not been able to do is access the SQL Server from my PC 
when the VM is running.  I have turned on named pipes, TCP/IP, and one 
other one (can't remember at the moment what it is).  I have also 
installed IIS onto the VM also and was not able to access a Web 
Service from my machine.


What else do I need to do to allow my machine to see SQL Server and 
IIS in the VM?


Thanks,
Bobby

Is the Windows Firewall turned on? If so, it'll block remote access. Try 
pinging the remote machine, and if that works telnet to port 1433 - you 
should get gibberish back, but that'll confirm that the connection works.


If the two machines are not a member of the same domain, you'll also 
have to use SQL authentication - you won't be able to use Windows 
authentication as that expects both machines to be in the same domain. 
This is something you can change through the server properties dialog 
(right click on the server node in SQL Management studio, properties, 
Security tab, change the server authentication type).


Jamie

Re: [H] SQL Server 2005, IIS, and VPC 2007.

[Jamie Furtner]

Bobby ` wrote:

One other thing, I can ping from the VM to the PC.  The networking in the VM
is set to NAT.

Thanks,
Bobby 


-Original Message-
From: Bobby Heid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:30 PM

To: 'Jamie Furtner'
Subject: RE: [H] SQL Server 2005, IIS, and VPC 2007.

Jamie,

I can not ping the VM.  It times out.  I can see it in Network Neighborhood.
I turned off both firewalls to see if it was being blocked.  What do I do
next?

Thanks,
Bobby

-Original Message-
From: Jamie Furtner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 12:58 PM

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] SQL Server 2005, IIS, and VPC 2007.

Bobby Heid wrote:
  

Hey,

I have SQL Server 2005 standard installed on my pc.  What I want to do 
is to install SQL 2005 standard on XP Pro inside of a Virtual PC 2007 
VM.  And I have done that.


What I have not been able to do is access the SQL Server from my PC 
when the VM is running.  I have turned on named pipes, TCP/IP, and one 
other one (can't remember at the moment what it is).  I have also 
installed IIS onto the VM also and was not able to access a Web 
Service from my machine.


What else do I need to do to allow my machine to see SQL Server and 
IIS in the VM?


Thanks,
Bobby


Is the Windows Firewall turned on? If so, it'll block remote access. Try 
pinging the remote machine, and if that works telnet to port 1433 - you 
should get gibberish back, but that'll confirm that the connection works.


If the two machines are not a member of the same domain, you'll also 
have to use SQL authentication - you won't be able to use Windows 
authentication as that expects both machines to be in the same domain. 
This is something you can change through the server properties dialog 
(right click on the server node in SQL Management studio, properties, 
Security tab, change the server authentication type).


Jamie
I think the way that Virtual PC virtualizes the NAT adapter screws up 
connectivity from the host to the guest - guest to host works fine. I've 
worked around this before by setting up a Loopback adapter, bridging the 
VM to the loopback interface, and configuring ICS on the host (or 
manually configuring IP addresses of host and guest). Take a look at 
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/10/04/477195.aspx for 
details on how to do this, beginning to end.


The other way to deal with this (assuming you can) is to bridge the VM 
to the physical adapter, so it appears on your network. If you do that 
then the issue goes away, but it does require that you can actually 
connect to a network, and it does expose the virtual machine to the 
outside world.


Jamie

Re: [H] Program to scrub empty disk areas

[Jamie Furtner]

Thane Sherrington wrote:
Does anyone know of a program that will overwrite empty areas on a 
hard drive (to do a secure erase after the fact?)


T


Eraser from http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ will do this (free, open source).

Jamie

Re: [H] Office corrections ?

[Jamie Furtner]

You can find it under Tools | Track changes in Word 2003 and I think 
similar in previous versions.


Jamie

FORC5 wrote:

do not know but will check it out
thanks

At 05:43 PM 9/20/2006, Ben Ruset Poked the stick with:
  

Isn't that part of the Word commenting and collaboration features?

FORC5 wrote:


I have a friend sent me a word doc that had it's spelling and grammar corrected 
with the corrections in red with a summation off to the right.
I have uploaded to HWG FTP if anyone wants to take a peek.
He wants me to  install sw to do this but I am not aware of any. I know office 
will correct spelling and grammar with the corrections in red I think is what 
he is after.
any pointers appreciated.
fp
  


  

Re: [H] Linksys Router Questions

[Jamie Furtner]

On Thu, July 27, 2006 11:58 am, Winterlight wrote:
 I have a couple of new Linksys wireless routers that I want to deploy to
 my LAN, with my existing Belkin Router, in an attempt to isolate my WAP
 from my LAN. I want to set these Linksys Routers up before I hook them
 into the LAN.

 With Belkin Routers all I have to do is use my Printserver laptop to boot
  into 98, setup up TCP/IP with specified IP numbers, then plug the router
  directly into the NIC, and use IE to log directly into the routers
 setup. I can then set everything up the way I want. Power down the LAN,
 plug the new router in, and power back up.

 I have not been able to log into the Linksys like this. There is no
 mention of setting up TCP/IP to direct connect the router. There is a
 default log in IP 192.168.1.1 but it won't let me log in regardless of
 what I set the NIC up for = 192.168.1.100.


 There is a software CD and some kind of easy button that I don't want any
  part of. How am I suppose to get into the Router to set it up?So is
 there is no direct access to a Linksys router? Do I have to screw with the
 easy button software?

 I bought the Linksys because they allow for external antenna replacement,
  but I am begging to think I made a mistake!


I think that some linksys models required that the WAN port have a link
before their set up would work - if you have a spare switch, plug the WAN
port in to that (IIRC, it doesn't need to actually be connected to
anything - it just must have link). Then you can try your setup again.

They should run DHCP on the LAN ports out-of-the-box, so a computer that's
plugged in to one of them should get an IP address. If it doesn't, hard
reset the router by holding down the reset button for 30 seconds or more
(this should erase the NVRAM) and then try again.

Jamie

Re: [H] What is the simplest way to share a folder on a...

[Jamie Furtner]

On Sun, July 23, 2006 12:35 pm, W. D. wrote:
 file server with a real world IP address?

 I would like to have a shortcut on my desktop (either W2K or XP)
 that points to a folder on a file server that is accessible from anywhere
 on the Internet.

 Obviously, this would need to be passworded.  Also, is there
 any simple way to encrypt the transfer of data?

 Thanks a bunch for any clues you can provide!

How about WebDAV or FTP - with WebDAV being preferred? Windows XP (and I
think 2K, but don't have it around so can't check) support them through My
Network Places. This is probably easiest from the desktop's perspective -
it'll depend on how much control you have over the server. There's also a
program from Novell called NetDrive that allows you to map a WebDAV or FTP
URL to a drive letter, that should simplify how users work with it as
well.

WebDAV is transported over HTTP(S) so can be secured if you want, but I
don't think Windows knows how to encrypt FTP transfers.

Jamie

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Re: [H] Changing the default search engine in IE

[Jamie Furtner]

You can do that with TweakUI for Windows XP, under Internet Explorer |
Search.

Jamie


On Wed, May 17, 2006 8:33 am, Huntress wrote:
 Can you send it to me too?  That really sounds like a useful trick.  :-)


 H


 Wayne Johnson wrote:


 At 09:57 AM 5/17/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:


 the one that comes up when you type something in the address bar that
  it can't find on the web


 I use a search prefix that one can create either in Tweakui or via Reg
 file. I use the reg file as that way I can create many different prefixes
 eg; gl for Google  gg for Google Groups etc. etc.

 I'd be happy to send you off list the reg file that includes AF=
 Acronym Finder, WC=WebCrawler, ask=Ask.com, ex=Excite, kb=MSKB  of
 course have Yahoo'd today ;-) which = ya.


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Re: [H] OT: VS 2005 Express editions are free forever!

[Jamie Furtner]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/compare/default.aspx

They're not as feature complete, though most of the missing stuff is
targeted at enterprises / team development. Some highlights:
- no integrated support for source code control (ie. integration with
Visual SourceSafe) - though you can still use an external client
- No support for macros, add-ins or packages
- Simplified interface


Jamie

On Wed, April 19, 2006 11:56 am, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
 At 02:26 PM 19/04/2006, Bobby Heid wrote:

 I know that some here are dabbling in Visual Studio.  Now the Express
 editions are free forever.

 Well that sounds pretty cool.  What do I lose by using an Express
 version?

 T






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Re: [H] Linux imaging

[Jamie Furtner]

Partimage can deal with ext[23]fs, Reiser3, JFS, and XFS partitions.

www.partimage.org is the site.

Jamie

On Mon, April 17, 2006 2:45 pm, Winterlight wrote:
 What program can image and restore  Linux partitions?






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Re: [H] Windows XP 'Internet Connection'

[Jamie Furtner]

On Tue, March 28, 2006 6:57 am, Christopher Fisk wrote:
 On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Christopher Fisk wrote:


 I have a customer who has been having slow network connectivity.  At
 once point they were fiddling around with the network and now in the
 network connections they're showing an interface called Internet
 Connection in
 addition to their normal connections, one which I am unable to delete.

 Network connections take upto 15 seconds to start, as this Internet
 Connection adaptor seems to have to negotiate and start working before
 any traffic goes out, even though I've setup the adaptors as they are
 supposed to be setup.

 I guess I should ask my question:


 How cna I get rid of that adaptor?  I can't delete it, and it doesn't
 seem to disable even when I tell it to.


 Thanks,



 Christopher Fisk
 QwicNet, Inc
 585-582-1600
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I think that's due to UPnP on the router - if you disable UPnP then it
should work as you expect.

Jamie

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Re: [H] DVD Copy 4 = iPod

[Jamie Furtner]

On Thu, March 23, 2006 5:54 pm, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
 Anyone here using DVDCopy4 to rip DVDs to play on an iPod?  Not that
 that's optimal or anything, but its great for long plane trips. My problem
 is while the video plays well, the audio drops out - at least on the last
 movie I took straight from a DVD.  I also used DVDShrink on one first but
 the movie ended up having video and audio out of sync from the get go.

 Is there a more reliable tool for doing this? Oh, I've also tried h.264
 and just mpeg4.  Same deal on both - and i defragged first, too.



I've used 3GP Converter to convert DVD content to ipod format - it does
the transcoding to MP4 and changes the size to what's needed for an iPod
in one operation.

I haven't had problems with it, but I haven't tried longer content yet -
just shorter clips.

http://www.nurs.or.jp/~calcium/3gpp/

Jamie

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Re: [H] Syslog-NG

[Jamie Furtner]

By itself, no, but by using a similar method for logging to a database you
can.

create a script to call snmptrap (/opt/scripts/sendtraps):
#!/bin/bash
while read LINE
  do
snmptrap  $LINE
done

then set up a destination in the syslog-ng.conf file:
  destination traps { program(/opt/scripts/sendtraps); };

Send whatever you want through the destination, filtering it as need.d

Jamie

On Thu, February 23, 2006 7:32 am, Ben Ruset wrote:
 Thanks. I have not had a chance to mess with any of this yesterday, but
 hopefully today I will be able to.

 Do you also know if you can have Syslog-NG send out SNMP alerts if there
 are certain events in logs?

 Jamie Furtner wrote:

 Have you checked to see if the SYSLOG traffic is hitting the server? A
 tcpdump should show the traffic.

 Other then the MySQL logging, I'm not doing that much different with my
  config - I've used remote logging in the past.

 Try running syslog-ng in debug mode (syslog -d) to see if the traffic
 comes through and gets filtered.




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Re: [H] Syslog-NG

[Jamie Furtner]

Have you checked to see if the SYSLOG traffic is hitting the server? A
tcpdump should show the traffic.

Other then the MySQL logging, I'm not doing that much different with my
config - I've used remote logging in the past.

Try running syslog-ng in debug mode (syslog -d) to see if the traffic
comes through and gets filtered.

Jamie

On Tue, February 21, 2006 3:42 pm, Ben Ruset wrote:
 I am trying to get my firewall to log to a Syslog-NG box I have setup. I
 have local services logging to the appropriate files, and also have them
 going to a MySQL database.

 I have configured TCP and UDP sources and verified that Syslog-NG is
 listening on those ports.

 For some reason I am not seeing any entries from my Firewall on my
 syslog box. Here's my config. Any help is much appreciated!

 options { sync (0); time_reopen (10); log_fifo_size (1000); long_hostnames
 (off);
 use_dns (no); use_fqdn (no); create_dirs (yes); keep_hostname (yes); };


 source s_sys { pipe (/proc/kmsg log_prefix(kernel: )); unix-stream
 (/dev/log); internal(); };


 source s_tcp { tcp(ip(10.100.3.121) port(5140) max-connections(100)); };
 source s_udp { udp(ip(10.100.3.121) port(514)); };

 destination d_cons { file(/dev/console); }; destination d_mesg {
 file(/var/log/messages); }; destination d_auth {
 file(/var/log/secure); }; destination d_mail { file(/var/log/maillog);
 };
 destination d_spol { file(/var/log/spooler); }; destination d_boot {
 file(/var/log/boot.log); }; destination d_cron { file(/var/log/cron);
 };
 destination d_mlal { usertty(*); }; destination d_kernel  {
 file(/var/log/kern); };

 destination d_tcp {
 file(/var/log/remote/$HOST/$YEAR.$MONTH.$DAY/$FACILITY); }; destination
 d_udp { file(/var/log/remote/$HOST/$YEAR.$MONTH.$DAY/$FACILITY); };


 destination d_mysql { pipe(/var/log/mysql.pipe template(INSERT INTO logs
  (host, facility, priority, level, tag, datetime, program, msg)
 VALUES ( '$HOST', '$FACILITY', '$PRIORITY', '$LEVEL', '$TAG',
 '$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC',
 l  '$PROGRAM', '$MSG' );\n) template-escape(yes)); };
 filter f_filter1 { facility(kern); }; filter f_filter2 {
 level(info) and not (facility(mail) or facility(authpriv) or facility(cron)
 or program(kernel)); }; filter f_filter3 { facility(authpriv); };
 filter f_filter4 { facility(mail); }; filter f_filter5 {
 level(emerg); }; filter f_filter6 { facility(uucp) or (facility(news)
 and level(crit)); }; filter f_filter7 { facility(local7); }; filter
 f_filter8 { facility(cron); }; filter f_kernel  { level(info) and
 program(kernel); };

 log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter1); destination(d_cons); }; log {
 source(s_sys); filter(f_filter2); destination(d_mesg); }; log {
 source(s_sys); filter(f_filter3); destination(d_auth); }; log {
 source(s_sys); filter(f_filter4); destination(d_mail); }; log {
 source(s_sys); filter(f_filter5); destination(d_mlal); }; log {
 source(s_sys); filter(f_filter6); destination(d_spol); }; log {
 source(s_sys); filter(f_filter7); destination(d_boot); }; log {
 source(s_sys); filter(f_filter8); destination(d_cron); }; log {
 source(s_sys); filter(f_kernel); destination(d_kernel); };

 log { source(s_tcp); destination(d_tcp); }; log { source(s_tcp);
 destination(d_mysql); };

 log { source(s_udp); destination(d_udp); }; log { source(s_udp);
 destination(d_mysql); };

 log { source(s_sys); destination(d_mysql); };



 Jamie Furtner wrote:

 What are you trying to do?


 Jamie


 On Tue, February 21, 2006 3:11 pm, Ben Ruset wrote:

 Any syslog-NG gurus on the list?










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Re: [H] Low Level Format of Samsung SV8004H

[Jamie Furtner]

Why not look at the DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) disk - it should help to
blow the partition table and everything away.

Jamie


On Tue, February 14, 2006 9:04 am, Wayne Johnson wrote:
 At 10:36 AM 2/14/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:

 I have tried all I have to get rid of the little 8 MB partition on a
 Samsung SV8004H hard drive on Hewlett Packard that I want to do a
 clean install on. In times past, Seagate came to my rescue, but not this
 time.

 I tried FDISK and the XP Installation process, to no avail. Samsung
 says it discontinued its hard drive preparation software since Windows XP
 CD will do the same thing.


 Don't know what you're talking about because the Low Level Format
 util is at
 http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/sutil.htm and
 Diagnostic  is at
 http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm
  http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/hutil.htm


 FWIW I have downloaded all of them without any problems.


 OBTW Google is your friend.


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Re: [H] Disk overlay?

[Jamie Furtner]

On Tue, February 7, 2006 12:09 pm, Sam Franc wrote:
 Using Partitiom Magic there is 7.8mb unallocated showing before before
 the partition information. Is that a disk overlay program?
 What will it do to me in the future if left there?
 Sam


It may not be an overlay - if the drive was originally partitioned with
Windows (during setup or with Disk Management), it reserves at least 1 MB
free (I've usually seen 8 MB) on the disk right at the end -- so it can be
upgraded from a basic to a dynamic disk. This must be done to use Windows'
software RAID/JBOD capability.

I don't think Windows' own tools will even show that there's empty space.

Jamie

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Re: [H] Removing unwanted services

[Jamie Furtner]

- Original Message -
From: Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, February 3, 2006 9:46 am
Subject: Re: [H] Removing unwanted services

 At 10:51 AM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:
 I've noticed from time to time that when I uninstall a program, 
 the 
 services it installed are still there.  I can disable them, but 
 I'd 
 like to remove them.  Is there anyway to do this in XP?
 

You can edit the registry at 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and remove the extra 
services - they're listed by their Service name in the service properties 
(from the Services console). 

Jamie

Re: [H] Adding users to XP from the command line

[Jamie Furtner]

On Fri, January 13, 2006 2:43 pm, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
 At 01:01 PM 13/01/2006, JRS wrote:

 http://www.ss64.com/nt/netuseroptions.html


 Net user options


 This is what I'm using, but it doesn't appear to do what I want.  I'd
 like to be able to create users and home folders from the command problem,
 copy specific files to the home folders, and be done, but it doesn't work.
 I use
 net user Fester /add /homedir:Fester

 That creates the user, but only as a limited user, so I have to manually
 modify the user in Control Panel, and it doesn't create the user folder.

 So then I added a line in the back file to create the user folder:
 md c:\documents and settings\Fester

 Then I log in as that user (btw Windows doesn't create the user's folder
 until you log in as that user) and it creates a new folder called
 Username.ComputerName or Username.000, etc, so I have to copy the files
 over again.

 There must be a way to do this from the command prompt.

One possibility is to
runas /profile /user:newuser cmd.exe /c exit
the newly created user with the /profile to create the profile directory
and the registry entries for it. Check runas /? at an XP command prompt
for more details.

Jamie

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Re: [H] Utility to remove lines from a text file

[Jamie Furtner]

On Thu, December 22, 2005 12:24 pm, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
 I seem to recall there was a utility to remove lines from a text file - a
  search and replace utility that ran from the command line.  There was
 one call munge.exe which came with the NT resource kit, but I can't find
 it.  Anyone know where I can find a program to do this?

 T


Try something like
find /v remove_term inputfile.txt  outputfile.txt

/v says take all lines NOT containing the string

FIND /? for all the options.

Jamie


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Re: [H] Two network cards in 2K3

[Jamie Furtner]

On Tue, November 22, 2005 3:12 pm, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
 At 03:45 PM 22/11/2005, Jamie Furtner wrote:

 What do you mean by the 2K3 machine can't see the router? Can you ping
 it? Any connectivity to any devices on the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet? Is
 there a firewall blocking traffic - maybe the router itself?

 The 2K3 machine can't ping the router (or any other device on the
 192.168.1.x subnet.  It's in the DMZ, so it should be able to ping the
 router, shouldn't it?

 Other computers are using the router with no problems.

The router may be blocking its pings from the DMZ -- if it can't ping the
router when it's not in the DMZ, then you have other issues. Can other
nodes on the internal network ping the server? Maybe you have a
connectivity issue here instead(cables, NIC, port?)



 Probably the best, easiest and most secure thing to do is to set up
 port forwarding on the router for port 80 (and maybe 443 if you need
 HTTPS).
 That  reduces the amount of exposure of the 2K3 machine and should
 reduce the possibility of getting hacked.

 Yeah, that makes more sense than putting it in the DMZ.  I put it there
 to try to get around the connectivity problem I was having with the
 router.

 T





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Re: [H] Sticky notes/hyper links ideas

[Jamie Furtner]

On Thu, October 13, 2005 1:58 pm, Brian Weeden wrote:
 Currently I do a lot of surfing away from home (12hr night shifts at
 work, girlfriends house).  I will be reading and come across a story or a
 link or something to download that I want to save.  Maybe it is a how-to
 article on AJAX or a bunch of free fonts.  Right now my solution is to
 save the link or copied text or whatever in a Gmail draft until I get
 around to actually bookmarking or downloading or printing whatever it was.


 Any ideas for a better solution?  Something where I can make notes as
 I am surfing along for things to go back to later and accessible from
 multiple machines?

 --
 Brian

If you have access to a PHP/MySQL server, there's an app called online
bookmarks that I use. You can easily create a bookmarklet that will add
the current page to its database(click on the link in your links folder
and up pops a window asking you in what folder, what title and any
description to give it)
http://www.frech.ch/online-bookmarks/

Otherwise something like digg.com or del.icio.us may work, though AFAIK
they're more social bookmarking sites -- anyone can see your bookmarks.

Jamie

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Re: [H] XP Repair install problem

[Jamie Furtner]

I'm not sure, but could it be looking for the boot.ini file with a line
defining the location of the XP install? Is the boot.ini file
empty/non-existant?

Jamie


On Wed, October 12, 2005 12:57 pm, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
 When XP is getting ready to offer to do a repair install, it says
 Searching for Windows installs.  What is it looking for?  I have a
 machine with what appears to be a complete Windows folder, but it won't
 boot, and booting from the CD only offers deleting the partition or
 installing Windows into the partition that's there.  No repair option.
 Any
 ideas?

 T





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Re: [H] where is waldo on VPC

[Jamie Furtner]

If you look at your My Documents\My Virtual Machines\VM name folder (or
wherever you placed the VM), there's a file with an extension of .VHD.
That's the virtual hard drive that holds all the contents that you put
into that VM. You won't see the contents of your primary drive without
sharing it or somehow giving access to it to the VM.

Jamie


On Tue, October 11, 2005 4:37 pm, rls wrote:
 Ok, set up my first Virtual Space/drive on Virtual PC and installed DOS
 6.22. and it works, lol. I can see that that C: is 2.1 gb, but I don't
 notice the file or directory on my primary C: drive. So where does Virtual
  PC keep its space (file or directory) ?





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Re: [H] Chris just a basic Virtual PC Question

[Jamie Furtner]

Not officially from Microsoft, though it does work fine. It emulates
standard hardware (S3 video card, intel 440BX chipset, DEC/Intel 21140
NIC) so most OSes out there should support it without having to dig up
drivers.

I personally prefer VMWare as it lets the guest OS write to the host's
hard drive -- VPC only allows read access to drives that have partitions
mounted by the host on them. This allows me to have a Linux install that I
can boot into and use inside of VMWare.

Jamie

On Wed, October 5, 2005 10:55 am, j m g wrote:
 Does VPC have linux/bsd support? I've been using VMWare for a few years
 simply because they have support for bsd/linux of various kernels,
 currently there is support for solaris 9 and 10. I haven't tried the
 workstation 5.5beta, but there are some interesting new features.


 On 10/4/05, Jamie Furtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 Yes, you do. They're the same as having three seperate physical
 machines, and depending on your hardware you could have all three guests
 running at the same time.

 I'm not sure if VPC gives the same MAC address to the NIC in every
 machine though I suspect that it doesn't. This should cause problems
 with activation, though I've only experimented with MSDN volume license
 OSes at
 work.

 Jamie


 On Tue, October 4, 2005 4:27 pm, FORC5 wrote:

 why ? but with M$ one would guess.

 fp

 At 03:08 PM 10/4/2005, James Maki Poked the stick with:


 From a strictly legal standpoint (at least according to MS),
 wouldn't you
 have to have 3 Win XP licenses to install on 3 Virtual PCs?

 Jim Maki
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 -Original Message-
 From: Behalf Of rls



 nOw that is cOOl - I could install 2 or three versions of WinXP
 on the computer in the family room. The twins could screw up their
 'work
 space' and not impact my wife - the school teacher's - 'space'.
 Boy
 would that save me a ton of aggravation. And I am guessing, I
 could just create a image of the first install and just copy that
 to the others.

 Guess I can stop threatening the twins with gross bodily harm
 in the future. Lol, maybe they will think I have a kinder gentler
 side.


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 Tallyho ! ]:8)
 Taglines below !
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Re: [H] LAST QUESTION (for now) a Virtual PC Question

[Jamie Furtner]

Windows first, then VPC. VPC is a windows app that runs on top of a host
OS (Windows XP, 2003 or 2000).

Jamie

On Tue, October 4, 2005 4:36 pm, rls wrote:
 Ok, I am starting with a blank drive do I install VPC first or WinXP?


 thanks




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The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that
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RE: [H] Chris just a basic Virtual PC Question

[Jamie Furtner]

Yes, you do. They're the same as having three seperate physical machines,
and depending on your hardware you could have all three guests running at
the same time.

I'm not sure if VPC gives the same MAC address to the NIC in every machine
though I suspect that it doesn't. This should cause problems with
activation, though I've only experimented with MSDN volume license OSes at
work.

Jamie

On Tue, October 4, 2005 4:27 pm, FORC5 wrote:
 why ? but with M$ one would guess.

 fp

 At 03:08 PM 10/4/2005, James Maki Poked the stick with:

 From a strictly legal standpoint (at least according to MS), wouldn't
 you
 have to have 3 Win XP licenses to install on 3 Virtual PCs?

 Jim Maki
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 -Original Message-
 From: Behalf Of rls


 nOw that is cOOl - I could install 2 or three versions of WinXP on
 the computer in the family room. The twins could screw up their 'work
 space' and not impact my wife - the school teacher's - 'space'. Boy
 would that save me a ton of aggravation. And I am guessing, I could
 just create a image of the first install and just copy that to the
 others.

 Guess I can stop threatening the twins with gross bodily harm
 in the future. Lol, maybe they will think I have a kinder gentler side.


 --
 Tallyho ! ]:8)
 Taglines below !
 --
 Most wonderful ideas are so obvious that they're not.






-- 
Jamie Furtner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that
 intelligence has its limits.
  --unknown

Re: [H] Chris just a basic Virtual PC Question

[Jamie Furtner]

On Mon, October 3, 2005 5:22 pm, rls wrote:
 I assume that I can switch between operating systems by using
 cntrl-alt-del or some other hotkey - is that primarily what you do. So I
 can let a program run in one operating system while I am in a diff oper.
 Sys.?

Yes, if the VPC is full screen, right-alt to get out, if it's windowed you
can press right-alt or move the cursor outside of the window. VPC includes
extensions for Windows to make moving between host and guest more seemless
- similar to RDP/Terminal Services/Citrix if you've ever used any of those
services.



 Is it easy to install a new O.S. to the mix?

No more difficult then installing a new OS on a physical computer. You
just need the space on your machine to host the OS -- the entire OS goes
into files on the hard drive.



 Can you do an image of an O.S. install then restore it?

VPC has snapshot features, which means you can get the image into a
particular state, take the snapshot, do whatever you want (including a
format..) then revert to the snapshot.



 Can one  del an O.S. when one doesn't want it any longer?

As easy as deleting files. The entire VPC is in a set of VHD files for the
virtual hard drive and a VMC file that contains the settings of the VPC.



 Thanks





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 intelligence has its limits.
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Re: [H] http://monstercable.com/productpage.asp?pin=2436

[Jamie Furtner]

I have one for my iPod, and I do like it quite a lot. It puts out enough
to overpower the weaker stations in my area.

I live in an area that has a lot of dead space in the FM band, so tuning
it to an open frequency isn't a problem. When I first got it - I was in
the Greater Toronto Area then - I remember having to change channels
frequently as I moved around the city - that's the only thing I'd caution
you about. You need a frequency with no neighbours to get a decently clean
signal.

That said, my biggest complaint is that the volume is *very* quiet. I'll
regularly have to turn volume up to 80-100% to hear some podcasts or
music, compared to maybe 30% for CDs. Also, it *is* FM radio, so it isn't
as good as headphones.

Jamie

On Mon, August 8, 2005 2:44 pm, Winterlight wrote:


 Anybody ever use one of these


 http://monstercable.com/productpage.asp?pin=2436


 comments ?





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 intelligence has its limits.
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Re: [H] Tracking registry changes

[Jamie Furtner]

You can look at RegMon from System Internals - www.sysinternals.com. It
doesn't produce very pretty output, but does log all CRUD activity in the
registry.

Jamie

On Wed, July 6, 2005 10:31 am, Thane Sherrington wrote:
 Does anyone have any suggestions on a program that will track the changes
 a program makes to my registry?  I'd prefer something that would show a
 log of changes in a text file.

 T





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The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that
 intelligence has its limits.
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Re: [H] Partition - Disk - Drive - Tails

[Jamie Furtner]

It's for if you ever want to convert the disc from a basic disc to a
dynamic disc. The extra space (1 MB should be needed) is used for the
dynamic MBR called the private region database.

Jamie

On Thu, June 9, 2005 4:53 pm, rls said:
 For whatever reason when MS partitions a drive it leaves 8mg to almost 1
 gig unpartitioned spaced at the end of the drive.

 None of my other disk partitioning software creates these little turds.
 Is
 there any functional value or necessity for this wastage?

 Thanks





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The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that
 intelligence has its limits.
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Re: [H] MP3 ID Tag Program

[Jamie Furtner]

Take a look at MP3Ext (http://www.mutschler.de/mp3ext/). It hasn't been
updated in a while, but still works great.

Jamie

On Tue, May 31, 2005 1:25 pm, Steve Tomporowski said:
 I would like to modify MP3 ID tags outside of my MP3 database program.
 Does anyone know of a Tag modifier that will work as a right click
 from Explorer?

 ThanksSteve





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The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that
 intelligence has its limits.
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